Wayne A. White

Biosequestration and Ecological Diversity (eBook, ePUB)

Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change and Environmental Degradation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Increased throughput of carbon-based fossil energy, the destruction of Earth's forests, and other land use changes have resulted in ever higher levels of waste in the form of greenhouse gases-as well as a diminished capacity of the planet to absorb and store those wastes. This means that to avoid catastrophic global warming and maintain the habitab

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040219164
• Artikelnr.: 72303178

Autorenporträt

Wayne A. White lives with his wife on an 80-acre farm in Jefferson County, Kansas, where they raise grass-fed beef, apples, pears, berries, biomass energy, and a variety of vegetables and herbs. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from Kansas State University, has taught sociology and political science, and has worked as a legislative lobbyist, grant writer, and program administrator for a statewide nonprofit legal services organization. White owns and cares for forest and grassland in Kansas, Michigan, and Ontario, Canada. His interests include forestland health, high-diversity native grassland mixtures, and land management practices that protect and enhance ecological diversity.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Global Warming and Ecological Degradation. The Global Carbon Cycle and Terrestrial Biosequestration. Terrestrial Carbon
Food Security
and Biosequestration Enhancement. Land Management Examples
Practices
and Principles. Conservation Policy and the Politics of Growth. Appendix A: Measures and Conversion Units. Appendix B: Surface Albedo. Index.