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Michael Obersteiner developed the core model describing the forest value, agri-
cultural value, and decision of deforestation, worked on the chapter, introduced the
maximum tax income and contributed to the payment possibilities.
Ewald Rametsteiner contributed to the carbon price and incentives model and their
practical implementation, worked on the chapter and brought in many background
informations.
Ian McCallum collected and organized the data source and produced some fi gures
of the chapter.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We acknowledge the support by the Greenhouse Gas Initiative (GGI) project, an in-
stitute-wide collaborative effort within IIASA. The interdisciplinary research effort
within GGI links all the major research programs of IIASA that deal with research
areas related to climate change, including population, energy, technology, and forestry,
as well as LUCs and agriculture. GGI's research includes both basic and applied, pol-
icy-relevant research that aims to assess conditions, uncertainties, impacts, and policy
frameworks for addressing climate stabilization, from both near-term and long-term
perspectives. Support from the EU FP 6 Project Integrated Sink Enhancement Assess-
ment (INSEA, SSPI-CT-2003/503614 with DG RTD) is gratefully acknowledged. We
graceful thank the reviewers for their reports.
COMPETING INTERESTS
The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests.
