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| Title |
Effectiveness and legitimacy of forest carbon standards in the OTC voluntary carbon market
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Carbon Balance and Management, August 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1750-0680-6-4 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Eduard Merger, Till Pistorius |
| Abstract |
In recent years, the voluntary over-the-counter (OTC) carbon market has reached a significant market volume. It is particularly interesting for forest mitigation projects which are either ineligible in compliance markets or confronted with a plethora of technical and financial hurdles and lacking market demand. As the OTC market is not regulated, voluntary standards have been created to secure the social and environmental integrity of the traded mitigation projects and thus to ensure the quality of the resulting carbon credits. Building on a theoretical efficiency-legitimacy framework, this study aims to identify and analyse the characteristics and indicators that determine the efficiency and organisational legitimacy of standards for afforestation/reforestation carbon projects. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 114 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 108 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 23 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 17% |
| Researcher | 18 | 16% |
| Other | 11 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 7% |
| Other | 18 | 16% |
| Unknown | 17 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science | 43 | 38% |
| Social Sciences | 12 | 11% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 8% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 5 | 4% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 14 | 12% |
| Unknown | 26 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 October 2011.
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#5,852,724
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Outputs from Carbon Balance and Management
#94
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#33,299
of 123,323 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Carbon Balance and Management
#2
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