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Authors: Christopher B. Field, Michael R. Raupach (Editor), Susan Hill MacKenzie
ISBN-13: 9781559635271, ISBN-10: 1559635274
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Island Press
Date Published: March 2004
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Christopher B. Field

Book Synopsis

Field (director, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, US) and Raupach (chief research scientist, CSIRO Land and Water Landscape Systems Research Directorate, Australia) present a multidisciplinary exploration of recent research into the global carbon cycle, hoping to advance understanding of its role in climate change. Part of an ongoing project of the Scientific committee on Problems of the Environment, the text is predicated on the notion that the carbon cycle, the climate, and humans work together as a single system. After first exploring "cross- cutting" overarching issues, the papers synthesize the research on the carbon cycles of the oceans, the land, and land-ocean margins. They also discuss the role of humans in the carbon cycle and examine issues of carbon management. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	List of colorplates, figures, tables, boxes, and appendixes
	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
1	The global carbon cycle : integrating humans, climate, and the natural world	1
2	Current status and past trends of the global carbon cycle
3	The vulnerability of the carbon cycle in the 21st century : an assessment of carbon-climate-human interactions
4	Scenarios, targets, gaps, and costs	77
5	A portfolio of carbon management options	103
6	Interactions between CO[subscript 2] stabilization pathways and requirements for a sustainable earth system
7	A Paleo-perspective on changes in atmospheric CO[subscript 2] and climate	165
8	Spatial and temporal distribution of sources and sinks of carbon dioxide	187
9	Non-CO[subscript 2] greenhouse gases	205
10	Climate-carbon cycle interactions	217
11	Socioeconomic driving forces of emissions scenarios	225
12	Natural processes regulating the ocean uptake of CO[subscript 2]	243
13	Variability and climate feedback mechanisms in ocean uptake of CO[subscript 2]	257
14	A primer on the terrestrial carbon cycle : what we don't know but should	279
15	Geographic and temporal variation of carbon exchange by ecosystems and their sensitivity to environmental perturbations	295
16	Current consequences of past actions : how to separate direct from indirect	317
17	Pathways of atmospheric CO[subscript 2] through fluvial systems	329
18	Exchanges of carbon in the coastal seas	341
19	Pathways of regional development and the carbon cycle	355
20	Social change and CO[subscript 2] stabilization : moving away from carbon cultures	371
21	Carbon transport through international commerce	383
22	Near- and long-term climate change mitigation potential	405
23	Unanticipated consequences : thinking about ancillary benefits and costs of greenhouse gas emissions mitigation	419
24	International policy framework on climate change : sinks in recent international agreements	431
25	A multi-gas approach to climate policy	439
26	Storage of carbon dioxide by greening the oceans?	453
27	Direct injection of CO[subscript 2] in the ocean	469
28	Engineered biological sinks on land	479
29	Abatement of nitrous oxide, methane, and the other non-CO[subscript 2] greenhouse gases : the need for a systems approach	493
	List of contributors	507
	SCOPE series list	513
	SCOPE executive committee	517
	Index	519