Impacts of urban greenspace on offsetting carbon emissions for middle Korea.

@article{Jo2002ImpactsOU,
  title={Impacts of urban greenspace on offsetting carbon emissions for middle Korea.},
  author={Hyun-Kil Jo},
  journal={Journal of environmental management},
  year={2002},
  volume={64 2},
  pages={
          115-26
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:6385993}
}
The C reduction benefits of woody plants were greater in Chuncheon and Kangleung, where areal distribution of natural lands was larger and the population density lower than in Seoul, and Strategies to increase C storage and uptake by urban greenspace were explored.
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