Avoided land use conversions and carbon loss from conservation purchases in California

Moanga, Diana; Schroeter, Isabel; Ackerly, David; Butsic, Van

doi:10.1080/1747423x.2018.1533043

Title: Avoided land use conversions and carbon loss from conservation purchases in California

Journal Article · 23 October 2018 · Journal of Land Use Science

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1747423x.2018.1533043 · OSTI ID:1510753

Moanga, Diana ^[1]; Schroeter, Isabel ^[2]; Ackerly, David ^[1]; Butsic, Van ^[1]

Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)

Conversion of natural lands to residential and agricultural uses can limit carbon (C) storage. Conservation measures, such as purchasing land to prevent development, can preserve stored aboveground C. Furthermore, since it is difficult to know what would happen to the land in the absence of conservation interventions, the additional carbon benefit of these programs remains unknown. Therefore, we analyzed 73 coastal parcels (292,184 total acres) acquired by the California State Coastal Conservancy (SCC) and developed counterfactual scenarios to highlight the impact of conservation actions. We found that an additional 55 * 10³ Mg aboveground C (1.357% of the total stored carbon) was protected. The methodology we develop here, which incorporates expert opinion and neighboring land conversion trends, effectively evaluates the impact of conservation purchases to prevent land conversion, and could be used to measure changes of various ecosystem services.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1510753

Journal Information:: Journal of Land Use Science, Journal Name: Journal of Land Use Science Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 13; ISSN 1747-423X

Publisher:: Taylor & FrancisCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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