Soil carbon : science, management, and policy for multiple benefits /

• Other Authors: Banwart, Steven A., (Editor), Noellemeyer, Elke, (Editor), Milne, Eleanor, 1970- (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2015.
• Series: SCOPE series ; volume 71
• Subjects: Soils > Carbon content.; Carbon sequestration.; Soil fertility.; Climate change mitigation.; Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000); Meteorology and Climate.; Soil Chemistry and Mineralogy.; Soil Physics.; Soil Fertility.; Policy and Planning.; Land Resources.; Pollution and Degradation.; Soil Management.; Agricultural production.; Carbon.; Carbon markets.; Climate change.; Cycling.; Ecosystems.; Land degradation.; Land management.; Nitrogen.; Organic carbon.; Productivity.; Soil management.; Soil organic matter.; Soil quality.
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This book contains 31 chapters, grouped into 7 parts, which provides a link between the complexity of the scientific knowledge on soil carbon, and how this knowledge can be applied for multiple benefits, and the complexity of the policy and practice arenas where soil and land management impact many...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction, overview and integration
• Soil carbon in Earth's life support system
• The multiple benefits of soil carbon
• Quantification and reporting of soil carbon
• Influence of human activity on soil carbon
• Managing soil carbon for multiple benefits
• Governance of soil carbon.