Overview

Soil carbon sequestration can play a strategic role in controlling the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere and thereby help mitigate climatic change. There are scientific opportunities to increase the capacity of The vast areas of degraded and desertified lands throughout the world offer great potential for the sequestration of very large quantities of carbon. If credits are to be bought and sold for carbon storage, quick and inexpensive instruments and methods will be needed to monitor and verify that carbon is actually being added and maintained in soils. Large-scale soil carbon sequestration projects pose economic and social problems that need to be explored. This book focuses on scientific and implementation issues that need to be addressed in order to advance the discipline of carbon sequestration from theory to reality. The main issues discussed in the book are broad and cover aspects of basic science, monitoring, and implementation. The opportunity to restore productivity of degraded lands through carbon sequestration is examined in detail.

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Author:   Norman J. Rosenberg ,  Roberto C. Izaurralde
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Reprinted from CLIMATIC CHANGE, 51:1, 2001
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.780kg
ISBN:  

9780792371496

ISBN 10:   0792371496
Pages:   118
Publication Date:   31 October 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Storing Carbon in Agricultural Soils to Help Head-Off a Global Warming.- Science Needs and New Technology for Increasing Soil Carbon Sequestration.- Potential of Desertification Control to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect.- Monitoring and Verifying Changes of Organic Carbon in Soil.- Soil Carbon: Policy and Economics.

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