A Biophysical Circular Flow Model for the Forest Carbon Landscape
This paper accompanies an illustrative poster presentation in which the objective is to integrate the forest carbon landscape into the biophysical circular flow model of the economy. Over the past 30 years there have been growing concerns about the consequences of deforesta tion, unsustainable forestry and land use practices, biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, food security, and most recently, climate change. In this respect, we look at the many different functions that forests can perform to alleviate poverty, provide food security, provide renewable energy, protect against floods, mitigate/stabilise climate change, conserve that vast number of species depending on forest ecosystems, and the mechanisms which have been set up to stop deforestation and increase global forest cover. Consistent with many circular flow models in ec ological economics, the presentation is conceptual and illustrative in nature, rather than empir ical, and presents the interdependence between the economic, social and ecological values of forests captured in the form of natural, social, cultural, intellectual, organisational, and ethi cal capital, in addition to the well known economic and financial capital flows.
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Majella Clarke
国际会议
The Frist Global Forum of Ecological Economics in Forestry(首届全球森林生态经济论坛 GFEEF)
南京
英文
147-162
2009-08-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）