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Climate Change Mitigation by the Forestry Options in Bangladesh – A Synthesis

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Forests to Climate Change Mitigation

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Understanding the background of climate change along with its causes, consequences, and responses of the global community is important for climate change mitigation. This chapter attempts to construct a theoretical framework on how climate change disrupts the human and ecological systems and how forest land use mitigates this. As a global response to the climate change, Kyoto Protocol and its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) regarding forestry and bioenergy promotion have been importantly discussed here. This chapter finds a severe consequence of climate change on the globe, tropical developing countries in particular. It argues a strong impact of forest-based CDM on the climate change mitigation as well as sustainable development in the non-Annex I countries. This chapter also describes the scope, objectives, and general methodological approach of the book.

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  1. Forest Policy Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Shinshu University, 8304 Minamiminowa-Mura, Kami Ina Gun, 399-4598, Nagano-Ken, Japan

    Md. Danesh Miah

  2. Department of Forest Science, Kookmin University, 136-702, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Prof. Dr. Man Yong Shin

  3. Forest Policy Laboratory, Shinshu University, 8304 Minamiminowa-Mura, Kami Ina Gun, 399-4598, Nagano-Ken, Japan

    Prof. Dr. Masao Koike

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Miah, D., Shin, M.Y., Koike, M. (2011). Climate Change Mitigation by the Forestry Options in Bangladesh – A Synthesis. In: Forests to Climate Change Mitigation. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13253-7_1

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