Sensitivity of carbon sequestration costs to soil carbon rates

被引:26
作者
Antle, J
Capalbo, S
Mooney, S
Elliott, ET
Paustian, KH
机构
[1] Montana State Univ, Dept Agr Econ & Econ, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA
[2] Univ Nebraska, Sch Nat Resource Sci, Lincoln, NE 68583 USA
[3] Colorado State Univ, Nat Resource Ecol Lab, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA
关键词
carbon sequestration; soil C rates; marginal cost; integrated assessment approach; wheat;
D O I
10.1016/S0269-7491(01)00218-4
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Modifying current agricultural management practices as a means of sequestering carbon has been shown to be a relatively low cost way to offset greenhouse gas emissions. In this paper we examine the sensitivity of the estimates of the amount of soil carbon sequestered and the implied costs of sequestering a tonne of carbon to changes in the rates of soil carbon sequestered for alternative production practices. An application is made to the dryland grain production systems of the US Northern Plains where the marginal costs of soil C range from $20 to $100 per MT. We show that the resulting changes in the marginal costs quantities of C sequestered are not a monotonic transformation of the changes in the soil carbon rates. These results underscore the importance of using a linked economic and biophysical simulation model to assess the economic potential for sequestering carbon in agricultural soils. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:413 / 422
页数:10
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