Forest Carbon papers
van Kooten, G.C. and L.M. Arthur, 1989. Assessing Economic Benefits of Climate Change on Canada’s Boreal Forest, Canadian Journal of Forest Research 19(April): 463-70.
van Kooten, G.C., 1990. Climate Change Impacts on Forestry: Economic Issues, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 38(December): 701-710.
van Kooten, G.C., L.M. Arthur and W.R. Wilson, 1992. Potential to Sequester Carbon in Canadian Forests: Some Economic Considerations, Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politique 18(August): 127-38.
van Kooten, G.C., L.M. Arthur and W.R. Wilson, 1993. Potential to Sequester Carbon in Canadian Forests: A Reply, Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politique 19(December): 469-473.
van Kooten, G.C., C.S. Binkley and G. Delcourt, 1995. Effect of Carbon Taxes and Subsidies on Optimal Forest Rotation Age and Supply of Carbon Services, American J of Agricultural Economics 77(2): 365-374.
van Kooten, G.C., A. Grainger, E. Ley, G. Marland and B. Solberg, 1997. Conceptual Issues Related to Carbon Sequestration: Uncertainty and Time, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science & Technology 27: S65-82.
van Kooten, G.C., E. Krcmar-Nozic, B. Stennes and R. van Gorkom, 1999. Economics of Fossil Fuel Substitution and Wood Product Sinks when Trees are Planted to Sequester Carbon on Agricultural Lands in Western Canada, Canadian J of Forest Research 29(11): 1669-1678.
van Kooten, G.C., B. Stennes, E. Krcmar-Nozic and R. van Gorkom, 2000. Economics of Afforestation for Carbon Sequestration in Western Canada, The Forestry Chronicle 76(1): 165-72.
van Kooten, G.C., 2000. Economic Dynamics of Tree Planting for Carbon Uptake on Marginal Agricultural Lands, Canadian J of Agricultural Economics 48(March): 51-65.
van Kooten, G.C., S. Shaikh and P. Suchánek, 2002. Mitigating Climate Change by Planting Trees: The Transaction Costs Trap, Land Economics 78(November): 559-72.
van Kooten, G. C., A.J. Eagle, J. Manley and T. Smolak, 2004. How Costly are Carbon Offsets? A Meta-analysis of Carbon Forest Sinks, Environmental Science & Policy 7(4): 239-251.
van Kooten, G.C. and A.J. Eagle, 2005. Forest Carbon Sinks: A Temporary and Costly Alternative to Reducing Emissions for Climate Change Mitigation. Chapter 11 in Institutions, Sustainability, and Natural Resources: Institutions for Sustainable Forest Management, Vol. 2. (pp.233-255) edited by S. Kant and R.A. Berry. Amsterdam: Kluwer.
van Kooten, G.C. and B. Sohngen, 2007. Economics of Forest Carbon Sinks: A Review, International Review of Environmental & Resource Economics 1(3): 237-269.
van Kooten, G. C., 2009. Biological Carbon Sinks: Transaction Costs and Governance, The Forestry Chronicle 85(3): 372-376.
van Kooten, G.C., 2009. Biological Carbon Sequestration and Carbon Trading Re-visited, Climatic Change 95(3-4): 449-463.
van Kooten, G.C., S. Laaksonen-Craig and Y. Wang, 2009. A Meta-Regression Analysis of Forest Carbon Offset Costs, Canadian J of Forest Research 39(11): 2153-2167.
van Kooten, G.C. and F.P. de Vries, 2013. Carbon Offsets, pp 6-8 in Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Volume 1, edited by J. Shogren. Amsterdam, NL: Elsevier.
van Kooten, G.C., C. Johnston and Z. Xu, 2014. Economics of Forest Carbon Sequestration. Chapter 16 (pp. 243-257) in Handbook of Forest Resource Economics edited by S. Kant and J. Alavalapati. Oxon, UK: Routledge.
van Kooten, G.C., T. Bogle and F. de Vries, 2015. Forest Carbon Offsets Revisited: Shedding Light on Darkwoods, Forest Science 61(2): 370-380.
van Kooten, G.C. and C.M.T. Johnston, 2016. The Economics of Forest Carbon Offsets, Annual Review of Resource Economics 8(1): 227-246.
van Kooten, G.C., 2017. Forest Carbon Offsets and Carbon Emissions Trading: Problems of Contracting , Forest Policy & Economics 76: Early view http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2016.12.006
van Kooten, G.C., M. Nijnik, and K. Bradford, 2019. Can Carbon Accounting Promote Economic Development in Forest-Dependent, Indigenous Communities? Forest Policy and Economics 100(March): 68-74.
van Kooten, G.C., C.M.T. Johnston and F. Mokhtarzadeh, 2019. Carbon Uptake and Forest Management under Uncertainty: Why Natural Disturbance Matters, Journal of Forest Economics 34(1-2): 159-185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/112.00000446.
Siebel-McKenna, A., C.M.T. Johnston and G.C. van Kooten, 2020. Knock on Wood: The Effects of Suboptimal Decision-making on Forest Carbon Sequestration in the Presence of Uncertainty in Wildfire Risk, Spatial Economic Analysis 15(3): 299–310. https://doi.org/10.1080/17421772.2019.1701700.
van Kooten, G.C., 2020. How effective are Forests in Mitigating Climate Change? Forest Policy and Economics 120(November): 102295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2020.102295
van Kooten, G.C., P. Withey and C.M.T. Johnston, 2021. Climate Urgency and the Timing of Carbon Fluxes, Biomass and Bioenergy 151: 106162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2021.106162.
Howard, C., C.C. Dymond, V.C. Griess, D. Tolkien-Spurr and G.C. van Kooten, 2021. Wood Product Carbon Substitution Benefits: A Critical Review of Assumptions, Carbon Balance and Management 16: 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13021-021-00171-w. (Open access).
Russell, A.R., G.C. van Kooten, J.G. Izett and M.E. Eiswerth, 2022. Damage Functions and the Social Cost of Carbon: Addressing Uncertainty in Estimating the Economic Consequences of Mitigating Climate Change, Environmental Management 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-022-01608-9.
van Kooten, G.C., 2023. Determining Optimal Forest Rotation Ages and Carbon Offset Credits: Accounting for Post-Harvest Carbon Storehouses, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 71(2): 255-272. http://doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12333.
van Kooten, G.C. and R. Zanello, 2023. Carbon Offsets and Agriculture: Options, Obstacles, and Opinions, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 71(3-4): 375-391. https://doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12340.