Land Use and the Carbon Cycle: Advances in Integrated Science, Management, and Policy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107011243)

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.

Author: Daniel G. Brown
ISBN-10: 1107011248
ISBN-13: 9781107011243
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2013
Pages: 580
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.00lbs
Size: 10.20h x 7.10w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2013