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

Other author Field, Christopher B.
Other author Raupach, M. R. (Michael R.)
Format Book
Publication InfoWashington : Island Press, ©2004.
Descriptionxxiv, 526 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)
Greenhouse gas mitigation.
Nature--Effect of human beings on.

SeriesSCOPE ; 62
SCOPE report ; 62. ^A6994
Contents The global carbon cycle: integrating humans, climate, and the natural world / Christopher B. Field, Michael R. Raupach, Reynaldo Victoria -- Current status and past trends of the global carbon cycle / Christopher L. Sabine, ...[et al.] -- The vulnerability of the carbon cycle in the 21st century: an assessment of carbon-climate-human interactions / Nicolas Gruber, ...[et al.] -- Scenarios, targets, gaps, and costs / Jae Edmonds, ...[et al.] -- A portfolio of carbon management options / Ken Caldeira, ...[et al.] -- Interactions between CO₂ stabilization pathways and requirements for a sustainable earth system / Michael R. Raupach, ...[et al.] -- A paleo-perspective on changes in atmospheric CO₂ and climate / Fortunat Joos, I. Colin Prentice -- Spatial and temporal distribution of sources and sinks of carbon dioxide / Martin Heimann, Christian Rödenbeck, Manuel Gloor -- Non-CO₂ greenhouse gases . Ronald G. Prinn -- Climate-carbon cycle interactions / Pierre Friedlingstein -- Socioeconomic driving forces of emissions scenarios / Nebojsa Nakicenovic -- Natural processes regulating the ocean uptake of CO₂ / Corinne Le Quéré, Nicolas Metzl -- Variability and climate feedback mechanisms in ocean uptake of CO₂ / Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Jorge L. Sarmiento -- A primer on the terrestrial carbon cycle: what we don't know but should / Jonathan A. Foley, Navin Ramankutty -- Geographic and temporal variation of carbon exchange by ecosystems and their sensitivity to environmental perturbations / Dennis Baldocchi, Riccardo Valentini -- Current consequences of past actions: how to separate direct from indirect / Gert-Jan Nabuurs -- Pathways of atmospheric CO₂ through fluvial systems / Jeffrey E. Richey -- Exchanges of carbon in the coastal seas / Chen-Tung Arthur Chen -- Pathways of regional development and the carbon cycle / Patricia Romero Lankao -- Social change and CO₂ stabilization: moving away from carbon cultures / Louis Lebel -- Carbon transport through international commerce / Jeff Tschirley, Géraud Servin -- Near- and long-term climate change mitigation potential / Jayant A. Sathaye -- Unanticipated consequences: thinking about ancillary benefits and costs of greenhouse gas emissions mitigation / Jae Edmonds -- International policy framework on climate change: sinks in recent international agreements / Maria José Sanz, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Riccardo Valentini -- A multi-gas approach to climate policy / Alan S. Manne, Richard G. Richels -- Storage of carbon dioxide by greening the oceans? / Dorothee C.E. Bakker -- Direct injection of CO₂ in the ocean / Peter Smith -- Abatement of nitrous oxide, methane, and the other non-CO₂ greenhouse gases: the need for a systems approach / G. Philip Robertson.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2003024792
ISBN1559635266 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781559635264 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1559635274 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9781559635271 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks QC879.8 .G55 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold