Greenhouse gas sinks / edited by David S. Reay ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reay, Dave, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greenhouse gas mitigation.

Greenhouse gases--Environmental aspects.

Greenhouse gases.

Plant-atmosphere relationships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wallingford : CABI, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The many and varied sinks for greenhouse gases on Earth are nothing less than vital to life as we know it. For millennia they have maintained relatively balanced concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide in our atmosphere. Even when humankind drastically increased greenhouse emissions following the industrial revolution, many of the sinks responded by increasing their uptake rates, and so buffered our headlong drive towards enhanced global warming. Currently, the earth's carbon sinks reabsorb around half of all the extra carbon dioxide human activities add to the atmosphere e

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Carbon Dioxide: Importance, Sources and Sinks; 2 Terrestrial Vegetation as a Carbon Dioxide Sink; 3 The Oceanic Sink for Carbon Dioxide; 4 The Soil Carbon Dioxide Sink; 5 Implications for Increasing the Soil Carbon Store: Calculating the Net Greenhouse Gas Balance of No-till Farming; 6 Geological Carbon Sinks; 7 Artificial Carbon Sinks: Utilization of Carbon Dioxide for the Synthesis of Chemicals and Technological Applications; 8 Prospects for Biological Carbon Sinks in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems

9 Methane: Importance, Sources and Sinks10 The Soil Methane Sink; 11 The Atmospheric Methane Sink; 12 Artificial Methane Sinks; 13 Nitrous Oxide: Importance, Sources and Sinks; 14 Stratospheric Sinks of Nitrous Oxide; 15 Sinks for Nitrous Oxide at the Earth's Surface; 16 Cross-cutting Issues and New Directions; 17 Impact of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on the Exchange of Carbon Dioxide, Nitrous Oxide and Methane from European Forests; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-81201-X

9786610812011

1-84593-190-4

OCLC:

181156810