Carbon Cycle Science: Research Priorities and Congressional Considerations

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Gabriel Gonzales (Editor)

Series: Environmental Research Advances
BISAC: SCI026000

Understanding the Earth’s carbon cycle is an urgent societal need as well as a challenging intellectual problem. The impacts of human-caused changes on the global carbon cycle will be felt for hundreds to thousands of years. Direct observations of carbon stocks and flows, process-based understanding, data synthesis, and careful modeling are needed to determine how the carbon cycle is being modified, what the consequences are of these modifications, and how best to mitigate and adapt to changes in the carbon cycle and climate. The importance of the carbon cycle is accentuated by its complex interplay with other geochemical cycles (such as nitrogen and water), its critical role in economic and other human systems, and the global scale of its interactions. This book provides an overview of research priorities and Congressional considerations relating to carbon cycle science. (Imprint: Novinka )

 

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

A U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan
(Anna M. Michalak, Robert B. Jackson, Gregg Marland, Christopher L. Sabine, and the Carbon Cycle Science Working Group)

The Carbon Cycle: Implications for Climate Change and Congress
(Peter Folger, CRS)

Index

 

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