Publications by Aaron Jenkins
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Green Payments for Blue Carbon: Economic Incentives for Protecting Threatened Coastal Habitats
April 2011 - by Brian C. Murray, Linwood Pendleton, W. Aaron Jenkins, and Samantha Sifleet
This report examines the critical question of whether monetary payments for blue carbon—carbon captured and stored by coastal marine and wetland ecosystems—can alter economic incentives to favor protection of coastal habitats such as mangroves, seagrass meadows, and salt marshes. This idea is analogous to payments for REDD+ (reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation), an instrument of global climate policy that aims to curtail forest clearing, especially in the tropics. Like payments for REDD+, incentives to retain rather than emit blue carbon would preserve biodiversity as well as a variety of other ecosystem services at local and regional scales.
Demand for REDD Carbon Credits: A Primer on Buyers, Markets, and Factors Impacting Prices
February 2011 - by Joshua D. Schneck, Brian C. Murray, Christopher S. Galik, and W. Aaron Jenkins
This paper provides an overview of the demand for forest carbon, including potential buyers and their objectives, markets for forest carbon, and forces that affect the price of forest carbon. It is intended for parties and organizations who are considering developing forest carbon projects, as an aid to understanding the changing market and demand for forest carbon credits. While the primary focus of the paper is on markets and demand for REDD credits—credits arising from projects that reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation—much of the information is applicable to afforestation and reforestation projects, as well as improved forest management.
Payments for Blue Carbon: Potential for Protecting Threatened Coastal Habitats
November 2010 - by Brian C. Murray, W. Aaron Jenkins, Samantha Sifleet, Linwood Pendleton, and Alexis Baldera
Coastal habitats worldwide are under increasing threat of destruction through human activities such as farming, aquaculture, timber extraction, or real estate development. This loss of habitat carries with it the loss of critical functions that coastal ecosystems provide: support of marine species, retention of shorelines, water quality, and scenic beauty, to name a few. These losses are large from an ecological standpoint but they are economically significant as well. Because the value of these ecosystem services is not easily captured in markets, those who control these lands often do not consider these values when choosing whether to clear the habitat to produce goods that can be sold in the marketplace. This is a form of market failure that leads to excessive habitat destruction. As a result, scientists, policymakers, and other concerned parties are seeking ways to change economic incentives to correct the problem. This is a revised version of a previously published policy brief.
Expanding the Scope of International Terrestrial Carbon Options: Implications of REDD+ and Beyond
February 2010 - by Kathleen Lawlor, Aaron Jenkins, Lydia P. Olander, Brian C. Murray
Valuing ecosystem services from wetlands restoration in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley
November 2009
The Economics of Offsets in a Greenhouse Gas Compliance Market
July 2009 - by Brian C. Murray and W. Aaron Jenkins
Mitigation Beyond the Cap: A Series of Briefs on Expanding Climate Mitigation Opportunities
Addressing Leakage in a Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Offsets Program for Forestry and Agriculture
April 2009 - by Aaron Jenkins, Lydia Olander and Brian Murray
Mitigation Beyond the Cap: A Series of Briefs on Expanding Climate Mitigation Opportunities
Valuing Ecosystem Services from Wetlands Restoration in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley
February 2009 - by Brian Murray, Aaron Jenkins, Randall Kramer, Stephen P. Faulkner
This study assesses the value of actions to restore wetlands via the Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV) of the U.S. by quantifying and monetizing ecosystem services.
Ecosystem Services, Markets, and Red Wolf Habitat: Results from a Farm Operator Survey
January 2009 - by Randall Kramer and Aaron Jenkins
This report is part of a larger project that examines economic values generated by red wolf conservation and explores ways to use market-based incentives to encourage greater conservation effort by private landowners.
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