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标题：How Potential Carbon Policies Could Affect Where and How Cotton Is Produced in the United States
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作者：Nalley, Lawton Lanier ; Popp, Michael P. ; Niederman, Zara 等
期刊名称：Journal of Food Distribution Research
印刷版ISSN：0047-245X
出版年度：2012
页码：215-231
出版社：Food Distribution Research Society
摘要：Using life cycle assessment methodology, this analysis evaluates how two carbon reduction strategies affect cotton plantings regionally and methods used to produce cotton. Because cotton production emits large amounts of carbon, the design of a reduction policy as either excluding soil sequestration through cap-and-trade or including it through carbon offset is likely to affect the success of the policy. A cap-and-trade program that ignores the amount of carbon cotton would sequester in the soil during its life cycle could increase net emissions by rewarding producers whose crops emit limited carbon directly but also sequester little carbon in the ground.
关键词：carbon;cotton;greenhouse gas;life cycle assessment;sequestration;tillage