Land Use and the Carbon Cycle

Herausgeber: Brown, Daniel G.; Robinson, Derek T.; French, Nancy H. F.

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Produktbeschreibung

Comprehensive exploration of how land use interacts with the atmosphere and carbon cycle, for advanced students, researchers and policy makers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 616
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1337g
• ISBN-13: 9781107011243
• ISBN-10: 1107011248
• Artikelnr.: 36773400

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Tony Janetos and Chris Field; Part I. Introduction: 1. Linking land
use and the carbon cycle Derek T. Robinson, Daniel G. Brown, Nancy H. F.
French and Bradley C. Reed; 2. An introduction to carbon cycle science
Galina Churkina; 3. The contribution of land-use and land-use change to the
carbon cycle R. A. Houghton; 4. An economic analysis of the effect of land
use on terrestrial carbon storage Robert Mendelsohn; Part II. Measurement
and Modeling: 5. Remote sensing for mapping and modeling land-based carbon
flux and storage Nancy H. F. French, Laura. L. Bourgeau-Chavez, Michael J.
Falkowski, Scott Goetz, Liza K. Jenkins, Richard B. Powell, Philip Camill
and Collin S. Roesler; 6. Identifying geographical sources and sinks of
carbon from atmospheric observations A. M. Michalak; 7. Overview of current
limitations, challenges, and solutions to integrating carbon dynamics with
land-use models Tom P. Evans, Mikaela Schmitt-Harsh and Derek T. Robinson;
8. Modeling for integrating science and management Virginia H. Dale and
Keith L. Kline; Part III. Integrated Science and Research Applications: 9.
Carbon emissions from land-use change: model estimates using three
different datasets Atul Jain, Prasanth Meiyappan and Tosha Richardson; 10.
A system to integrate multi-scaled data sources for improving terrestrial
carbon balance estimates Jordan Golinkoff and Steve Running; 11. Simulating
biogeochemical impacts of historical land-use changes in the U.S. Great
Plains from 1870 to 2003 William J. Parton, Myron P. Gutmann, Melannie D.
Hartman, Emily R. Merchant, Susan M. Lutz and Stephen J. DelGrosso; 12.
Carbon signatures of development patterns along a gradient of urbanization
Marina Alberti and Lucy Hutyra; Part IV. Land Policy, Management, and the
Carbon Cycle: 13. Managing carbon: ecological limits and constraints R.
César Izaurralde, Wilfred M. Post and Tristram O. West; 14. Effects of
wildland fire management on carbon stores Matthew D. Hurteau; 15. Soil
carbon dynamics in agricultural systems Cynthia A. Cambardella and Jerry L.
Hatfield; 16. U.S. policies and greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture
Carol Adaire Jones, Cynthia J. Nickerson and Nancy Cavallaro; 17.
Opportunities and challenges for offsetting greenhouse gas emissions with
forests Sandra Brown and Timothy Pearson; 18. Opportunities and challenges
for carbon management on U.S. public lands Lisa Dilling, Richard Birdsey
and Yude Pan; 19. Design and planning of residential landscapes to manage
the carbon cycle: invention and variation in land use and land cover Lauren
Lesch Marshall and Joan I. Nassauer; Part V. Synthesis and Future
Directions: 20. Forests, carbon, and the global environment: new directions
in research David L. Skole, Jay Samek, Michael Smalligan, Walter
Chomentowski and Oscar Castaneda; 21. Carbon cycle sustainability and land
use Dennis Ojima, Josep G. Canadell, Richard Conant, Christine Negra and
Petra Tschakert; 22. Synthesis, lessons, and what the future holds Daniel
G. Brown, Nancy H. F. French, Bradley C. Reed and Derek T. Robinson.