Carbon Management and Scenario Planning at the Landscape Scale

ISBN-13: 9783848403912 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str.

Shabnam Delfan Azari

Opis

It is now widely believed that globally averaged temperatures will rise significantly over the next 100 years as a result of increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHG) such as carbon dioxide. Responses to the threat of future climate change are both adaptations to new climate conditions, and mitigation of the magnitude of change. Mitigation can be achieved both through reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and by increasing storage of carbon in the earth system. In particular it is thought that there is potential for increased storage of carbon on land in soils and growing vegetation. There is now a need for research on the potential impacts of changing land use on terrestrial carbon storage, in particular as rapid land use and land cover change has taken place in most of regions of world over the past few decades due to accelerated industrialization, urbanization and agricultural practice. This thesis has developed a novel methodology for estimating the impacts of land use and land cover change (LULCC) on terrestrial carbon storage using Geographic Information Systems and Optimization modelling.

O autorze

When I was growing up, I always wanted to be a scientist or an author. So, it came as something of a big surprise when I published the first book. I have written two books on the Environment and land use management aspect. I have lived in Tehran, Mumbai, Pune, and Amsterdam. I am still on the run and live in Buckingham(England) with my little son.