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Storing Carbon in Agricultural Soils

A Multi-Purpose Environmental Strategy

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Norman J. Rosenberg

    1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

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  2. Roberto C. Izaurralde

    1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-iii
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  2. Storing Carbon in Agricultural Soils to Help Head-Off a Global Warming

    • Norman J. Rosenberg, Roberto C. Izaurralde
    Pages 1-10

  3. Science Needs and New Technology for Increasing Soil Carbon Sequestration

    • F. Blaine Metting, Jeffrey L. Smith, Jeffrey S. Amthor, R. Cesar Izaurralde
    Pages 11-34

  4. Potential of Desertification Control to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect

    • R. Lal
    Pages 35-72

  5. Monitoring and Verifying Changes of Organic Carbon in Soil

    • W. M. Post, R. C. Izaurralde, L. K. Mann, N. Bliss
    Pages 73-99

  6. Soil Carbon: Policy and Economics

    • Gregg Marland, Bruce A. McCarl, Uwe Schneider
    Pages 101-117
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About this book

Soil carbon sequestration can play a strategic role in controlling the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere and thereby help mitigate climatic change. There are scientific opportunities to increase the capacity of soils to store carbon and remove it from circulation for longer periods of time. The vast areas of degraded and desertified lands throughout the world offer great potential for the sequestration of very large quantities of carbon. If credits are to be bought and sold for carbon storage, quick and inexpensive instruments and methods will be needed to monitor and verify that carbon is actually being added and maintained in soils. Large-scale soil carbon sequestration projects pose economic and social problems that need to be explored.
This book focuses on scientific and implementation issues that need to be addressed in order to advance the discipline of carbon sequestration from theory to reality. The main issues discussed in the book are broad and cover aspects of basic science, monitoring, and implementation. The opportunity to restore productivity of degraded lands through carbon sequestration is examined in detail.
This book will be of special interest to professionals in agronomy, soil science, and climatology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

    Norman J. Rosenberg, Roberto C. Izaurralde

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Storing Carbon in Agricultural Soils

  • Book Subtitle: A Multi-Purpose Environmental Strategy

  • Editors: Norman J. Rosenberg, Roberto C. Izaurralde

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3089-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7149-6Published: 31 October 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5759-4Published: 01 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-3089-1Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IV, 118

  • Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Soil Science & Conservation, Environmental Management

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