Deriving Multiple Benefits from Carbon Market-Based Savanna Fire Management: An Australian Example.

ABSTRACT: Carbon markets afford potentially useful opportunities for supporting socially and environmentally sustainable land management programs but, to date, have been little applied in globally significant fire-prone savanna settings. While fire is intrinsic to regulating the composition, structure and dynamics of savanna systems, in north Australian savannas frequent and extensive late dry season wildfires incur significant environmental, production and social impacts. Here we assess the potential of market-based savanna burning greenhouse gas emissions abatement and allied carbon biosequestration projects to deliver compatible environmental and broader socio-economic benefits in a highly biodiverse north Australian setting. Drawing on extensive regional ecological knowledge of fire regime effec

SUBMITTER: Russell-Smith J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4668068 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature