Land Use and the Carbon Cycle: Advances in Integrated Science, Management, and PolicyDaniel G. Brown As governments and institutions work to ameliorate the effects of anthropogenic CO2 emissions on global climate, there is an increasing need to understand how land-use and land-cover change is coupled to the carbon cycle, and how land management can be used to mitigate their effects. This book brings an interdisciplinary team of 58 international researchers to share their novel approaches, concepts, theories, and knowledge on land use and the carbon cycle. It discusses contemporary theories and approaches combined with state-of-the-art technologies. The central theme is that land use and land management are tightly integrated with the carbon cycle and it is necessary to study these processes as a single natural-human system to improve carbon accounting and mitigate climate change. The book is an invaluable resource for advanced students, researchers, land-use planners, and policy makers in natural resources, geography, forestry, agricultural science, ecology, atmospheric science, and environmental economics. |
Contents
Linking Land Use and the Carbon Cycle | 3 |
An Introduction to Carbon Cycle Science | 24 |
The Contribution of Land Use and LandUse Change to the Carbon | 52 |
An Economic Analysis of the Effect of Land Use on Terrestrial Carbon | 77 |
Remote Sensing for Mapping and Modeling of LandBased Carbon | 95 |
Atmospheric Observations and Inverse Modeling Approaches | 144 |
With LandUse Models | 178 |
Modeling for Integrating Science and Management | 209 |
Ecological Limits and Constraints | 331 |
Effects of Wildland Fire Management on Forest Carbon Stores | 359 |
Soil Carbon Dynamics in Agricultural Systems | 381 |
U S Policies and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in Agriculture | 403 |
Opportunities and Challenges for Offsetting Greenhouse | 431 |
Opportunities and Challenges for Carbon Management on US Public | 455 |
Design and Planning of Residential Landscapes to Manage the Carbon | 477 |
New Directions | 505 |
Model Estimates Using | 241 |
A System to Integrate Multiscaled Data Sources for Improving | 259 |
Simulating Biogeochemical Impacts of Historical LandUse Changes | 287 |
Carbon Signatures of Development Patterns along a Gradient | 305 |
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