Carbon Sequestration for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation [Hardcover]

This book provides an understanding of the role of human activities in accelerating change in global carbon cycling summarizes current knowledge of the contemporary carbon budget. Starting from the geological history, this volume follows a multidisciplinary approach to analyze the role of human activities in perturbing carbon cycling by quantifying changes in different reservoirs and fluxes of carbon with emphasis on the anthropogenic activities, especially after the industrial revolution. It covers the role of different mitigation options  natural ecological, engineered, and geoengineered processes as well as the emerging field of climate engineering in avoiding dangerous abrupt climate change. Although the targeted audience is the educators, students, researchers and scientific community, the simplified analysis and synthesis of current and up to date scientific literature makes the volume easier to understand and a tool policy makers can use to make an informed policy decisions.

  Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION: CLIMATE OVERVIEW
1.1. Weather and Climate
1.2. Solar Radiation and Climate
1.3. Greenhouse Effect
1.4. Natural versus Anthropogenic Climate Change
1.5. Conclusions
References

Chapter 2: VARIABILITY AND CHANGE IN CLIMATE
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Radiative Forcing
2.3. Detection and Attribution of Climate Change
2.4. Climate Change
2.5. Conclusions
References

Chapter 3: INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL CARBON CYCLING: AN OVERRVIEW OF THE GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Photosynthesis and Respiration
3.3. Timescales and Modes of the Carbon Cycle
3.4. Introduction to Carbon Budget
3.5. Global Warming
3.6. Conclusion
References

Chapter 4: THE GLOBAL CARBON INVENTORY
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Atlã)