BGD 9, 835–878, 2012 Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change R. A. Houghton et al. Title Page Abstract Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures ◭ ◮ ◭ ◮ Back Close Full Screen / Esc Printer-friendly Version Interactive Discussion Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Discussion Paper | Biogeosciences Discuss., 9, 835–878, 2012 www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/9/835/2012/ doi:10.5194/bgd-9-835-2012 © Author(s) 2012. CC Attribution 3.0 License. Biogeosciences Discussions This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Biogeosciences (BG). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in BG if available. Chapter G2 Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change R. A. Houghton 1 , G. R. van der Werf 2 , R. S. DeFries 3 , M. C. Hansen 4 , J. I. House 5 , C. Le Qu ´ er´ e 6 , J. Pongratz 7 , and N. Ramankutty 8 1 Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, USA 2 Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3 Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, USA 4 Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA 5 Department of Geography, Cabot Institute, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK 6 Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK 7 Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, USA 8 Department of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Received: 12 December 2011 – Accepted: 4 January 2012 – Published: 19 January 2012 Correspondence to: R. A. Houghton (rhoughton@whrc.org) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union. 835