Global Carbon Cycle - Integrating Humans, Climate, and the Natural World

Informationen zum Autor Christopher B. Field is Director of the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, in Stanford, California. Michael R. Raupach is Chief Research Scientist in the CSIRO Land and Water Landscape Systems Research Directorate in Australia. The Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) was established by the International Council for Science (ICSU) in 1969. It brings together natural and social scientists to identify emerging or potential environmental issues and to address jointly the nature and solution of environmental problems on a global basis.With its headquarters in Paris, France, SCOPE programs are conducted by volunteer scientists from every inhabited continent of the globe. Klappentext Throughout! contributors emphasize that all parts of the carbon cycle are interrelated! and only by developing a framework that considers the full set of feedbacks will we be able to achieve a thorough understanding and develop effective management strategies. Zusammenfassung This work is an assessment of the state of current knowledge of the carbon cycle by a group of leading experts. It gives an introductory overview of the carbon cycle and covers both biophysical and human aspects of the cycle.

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• Authors: Christopher B. Raupach Field, M. R. (EDT)/ Raupach Raupach
• Assisted by: Christopher B Field (Editor), Christopher B. Field (Editor), Michael R Raupach (Editor), Michael R. Raupach (Editor)
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2004
• EAN: 9781559635271
• ISBN: 978-1-55963-527-1
• No. of pages: 568
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Scope Series; Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment S.; Scientific Committee on Proble
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology