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Biodiverse Planting for Carbon and Biodiversity on Indigenous Land
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 3, p e91281 (2014)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014.
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Abstract
- Carbon offset mechanisms have been established to mitigate climate change through changes in land management. Regulatory frameworks enable landowners and managers to generate saleable carbon credits on domestic and international markets. Identifying and managing the associated co-benefits and dis-benefits involved in the adoption of carbon offset projects is important for the projects to contribute to the broader goal of sustainable development and the provision of benefits to the local communities. So far it has been unclear how Indigenous communities can benefit from such initiatives. We provide a spatial analysis of the carbon and biodiversity potential of one offset method, planting biodiverse native vegetation, on Indigenous land across Australia. We discover significant potential for opportunities for Indigenous communities to achieve carbon sequestration and biodiversity goals through biodiverse plantings, largely in southern and eastern Australia, but the economic feasibility of these projects depend on carbon market assumptions. Our national scale cost-effectiveness analysis is critical to enable Indigenous communities to maximise the benefits available to them through participation in carbon offset schemes.
- Subjects :
- Conservation of Natural Resources
Science Policy
Economics
Natural resource economics
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Land management
Biodiversity
lcsh:Medicine
Social Sciences
Carbon sequestration
Indigenous
Sociology
Global Change Ecology
Science Policy and Economics
Spatial and Landscape Ecology
Carbon credit
lcsh:Science
Ecosystem
Sustainable development
Social Research
Multidisciplinary
Ecology
Geography
business.industry
lcsh:R
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Environmental resource management
Australia
Carbon offset
Biology and Life Sciences
Agriculture
Carbon
Earth Sciences
lcsh:Q
Environmental Economics
Business
Environmental Protection
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5713041e190c36bcfde55c1b7266118b