Publications

Photo collage of carbon sinks in agriculture and foresty

This section of the Web site provides a list of publications produced and supported by EPA, as well as other references. Publications that are not official EPA reports do not necessarily represent the opinions and findings of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The publications are categorized under the following major topics for agricultural and forestry sequestration activities:

Agricultural Soil Sequestration and Net Greenhouse Gas Accounting
Permanence
Impacts of Climate Change, Other Science Issues for Sequestration
International Trend Estimates of Net Carbon Storage
Inventory of Sequestration Rates and Agricultural CH₄ and N₂O (U.S.)
Leakage
Major Assessments
Mitigation (U.S. and international)
Projections of Forestry & Agriculture Sequestration

Agricultural Soil Sequestration and Net Greenhouse Gas Accounting

Robertson, G.P., E.A. Paul and R.R. Harwood (2000) Greenhouse Gases in Intensive Agriculture: Contributions of Individual Gases to the Radiative Forcing of the Atmosphere. Science, 289(5486): 1922-1925. [Available online with kind permission from Science Magazine].

Schlesinger, W.H. (1999) Carbon Sequestration in Soils. Science, 284: 2095. [Available online with kind permission from Science Magazine].

West, T.O. and W.M. Post (2002) Soil Carbon Sequestration by Tillage and Crop Rotation: A Global Data Analysis. Soil Science Society of America Journal. Available at DOE CDIAC site.

Lal, R., J.M. Kimble, R.F. Follett and C.V. Cole (1999) The Potential of U.S. Cropland to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect. Lewis Publishers.

Follett, R.F., J.M. Kimble and R. Lal (2001) The Potential of U.S. Grazing Lands to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect, Lewis Publishers.

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Permanence

See the Permanence section of this Web site.

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Impacts of Climate Change, Other Science Issues for Sequestration

Casperson, J.P. et al. (2000) Contributions of Land-Use History to Carbon Accumulation in U.S. Forests. Science, 290: 1148-1151. [Available online with kind permission from Science Magazine].

Houghton, R.A. (2002) Magnitude, distribution and causes of terrestrial carbon sinks and some implications for policy. Climate Policy, 2(1): 71-88. [Abstract only].

Joyce, L.A. and R. Birdsey (2000) The impact of climate change on America’s forests: A technical document supporting the 2000 USDA Forest Service RPA Assessment. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-59. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.

Shugart, H., R. Sedjo and B. Sohngen (2003) Forests & Global Climate Change: Potential Impacts on U.S. Forest Resources, Prepared for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change (PDF). (64 pp, 1.3MB, About PDF)

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International Trend Estimates of Net Carbon Storage

Houghton, R.A. and J.L. Hackler (2002) Carbon Flux to the Atmosphere from Land-Use Changes, estimates available at DOE's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center.

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Inventory of Sequestration Rates and Agricultural CH₄ and N₂O (U.S.)

Birdsey, R.A. and G.M. Lewis (2003) Carbon in United States Forests and Wood Products, 1987-1997: State-by-State Estimates. US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Global Change Research Program, and U.S. EPA.

EPA (2006) Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2001, EPA 430-R-06-002. See Agriculture and Land Use Change & Forestry chapters.

CASMGS 2003 Carbon Measurement and Monitoring Forum

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Leakage

See the Identifying Leakage for Projects section of this Web site.

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Major Assessments

IPCC (2000) Special Report on Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry, Cambridge University Press.

IPCC (2001) Climate Change 2001: Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. B. Metz et al. (eds.), Cambridge University Press.

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Mitigation (U.S. and International)

EPA (1995) Climate Change Mitigation Strategies in the Forest and Agriculture Sectors. EPA 230-R-95-002. For access to this document online, you need to go to EPA's National Service Center of Environmental Publications, and enter the title of the report.

Follett, R.F., J.M. Kimble and R. Lal (2001) The Potential of U.S. Grazing Lands to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect, Lewis Publishers.

Lal, R. et al. (1999) The Potential of U.S. Cropland to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect, Lewis Publishers.

Lewandrowski, J. et al. (2004) Economics of Sequestering Carbon in the U.S. Agricultural Sector, Technical Bulletin No. (TB1909) of USDA Economic Research Service.

McCarl, B.A. and U.A. Schneider (2001) Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in U.S. Agriculture and Forestry. Science, 294: 2481-2482. [Available online with kind permission from Science Magazine].

Sampson, R.N. and D. Hair (eds.) (1996) Forests and Global Change. Volume 2: Forest Management Opportunities for Mitigating Carbon Emissions. American Forests, Washington, DC.

Sathaye, J., W. Makundi and K. Andrasko (2001) Carbon mitigation potential and costs of forestry options in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines and Tanzania (PDF). (185 pp, 207K)

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 6 (3-4): 185-211. Available from IngentaConnect.

Schneider, U.A. and B.A McCarl (2002) The Potential of U.S. Agriculture and Forestry to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions: An Agricultural Sector Analysis. CARD 02-WP 300. CARD is a center located within the Department of Economics in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Iowa State University.

IPCC (2000) Special Report on Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry, R.T. Watson et al. (eds.), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press. Chapters 3 and 4 in particular contain mitigation estimates.

Sedjo, R., B. Sohngen and R. Mendelsohn (2001) Estimating Carbon Supply Curves for Global Forests and Other Land Uses (PDF). (34 pp, 120K)

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