The global carbon cycle [[electronic resource] ] : integrating humans, climate, and the natural world / / edited by Christopher B. Field and Michael R. Raupach

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783087103321
• Autore: Barker Rocky
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, : Island Press, c2004
• ISBN: 1-55963-202-X; 1-55963-527-4; 1-61091-075-3; 1-59726-877-1; 1-4175-3912-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (560 p.)
• Collana: SCOPE ; ; 62
• Altri autori (Persone): FieldChristopher B; RaupachM. R (Michael R.)
• Disciplina: 363.738/746
• Soggetti: Atmospheric carbon dioxide; Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry); Greenhouse gas mitigation; Nature - Effect of human beings on; United States Economic policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: About Island Press/ SCOPE; SCOPE Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Colorplates, Figures, Tables, Boxes, and Appendixes; Colorplates; Foreword; Ackowledgments; Ch 1: The Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Humans, Climate, and the Natural World; Part I: Crosscutting Issues; Ch 2: Current Status and Past Trends of the Global Carbon Cycle; Ch 3: The Vulnerability of the Carbon Cycle in the 21st Century: An Assessment of Carbon-Climate-Human Interactions; Ch 4: Scenarios, Targets, Gaps, and Costs; Ch 5: A Portfolio of Carbon Management Options; Ch 6: Interactions between CO2 Stabilization Pathways and Requirements for a Sustainable Earth SystemPart II: Overview of the Carbon Cycle; Ch 7: A Paleo-Perspective on Changes in Atmospheric ; CO2 and Climate; Ch 8: Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Sources and Sinks of Carbon Dioxide; Ch 9: Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases; Ch 10: Climate--Carbon Cycle Interactions; Ch 11: Socioeconomic Driving Forces of Emissions Scenarios; Part III: The Carbon Cycle of the Oceans; Ch 12: Natural Processes Regulationg the Ocean Uptake of CO2; Ch 13: Variability and Climate Feedback Mechanisms in Ocean Uptake of CO2Part IV: The Carbon Cycle of the Land; Ch 14: A Primer on the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: What We Don't Know But Should; Ch 15: Geographic and Temporal Variation of Carbon Exchange by Ecosystems and Their Sensitivity to Environmnetla Perturbation; Ch 16: Current Consequences of Past Actions: How to Separate Direct from Indirect; Part V: The Carbo Cycle of Land--Ocean Margins; Ch 17: Pathways of Atmospheric CO2 through Fluvual Systems; Ch 18: Exchanges of Carbon in the Coastal Seas; Part VI: Humans and the Carbon Cycle; Ch 19: Pathwaysof the Regional Development and the Carbon CycleCh 20: Social Change and CO2 Stabilization: Moving away from the Carbon Cultures; Ch 21: Carbon Transport through International Commerce; Part VII: Purposeful Carbon Management; Ch 22: Near- and Long-Term Climate Change Mitigation Potential; Ch 23: Unanticipated Consequences: Thinking about Ancillary Benefits and Costs of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation; Ch 24: International Policy Framework on Climate Change: Sinks in Recent International Agreements; Ch 25: A Multi-Gas Approach to Climate Policy; Ch 26: Storage of Carbon Dioxide by Greening the Oceans?Ch 27: Direct Injection of CO2 in the Ocean; Ch 28: Engineered Biological Sinks on Land; Ch 29: Abatement of Nitrous Oxide, Methane, and the Other Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases: The Need for a Systems Approach; List of Contributors; SCOPE Series List; SCOPE Executive Committee 2001-2004; Index; Island Press Board of Directors