Tropical Agriculture in Transition — Opportunities for Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4020-1422-2 (ISBN)
Due to the interactive nature of these issues, this book is compiled of articles on natural resource management, as well as the socio-economic aspects of GHG mitigation. The scope of mitigation options in tropical agriculture is discussed for three different activities: (a) agroforestry; (b) rice-based production systems; (c) pasture/animal husbandry.
Agronomic solutions alone will not be sufficient, as the institutional and economic frameworks within which farmers operate dictate whether a recommended agronomic management practice is acceptable. The prevention of deforestation, and the re-forestation of degraded land, could become key elements to national climate protection programs of some developing countries. Alternative management practices in rice-based and pasture systems may offer win-win options to reduce emissions and improve resource-use efficiencies.
Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Tropical Agriculture: Scope and Research Priorities.- Methane and Nitrogen Oxide Fluxes in Tropical Agricultural Soils: Sources, Sinks and Mechanisms.- Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Tropical and Temperate Agriculture: the Need for a Full-Cost Accounting of Global Warming Potentials.- Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Rice—Wheat Cropping Systems in Asia.- Is it Possible to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Pastoral Ecosystems of the Tropics?.- Implications of Land Use Change to Introduced Pastures on Carbon Stocks in the Central Lowlands of Tropical South America.- Estimation of Soil Carbon Gains Upon Improved Management within Croplands and Grasslands of Africa.- Mitigating GHG Emissions in the Humid Tropics: Case Studies from the Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Program (ASB).- An Amazon Perspective on the Forest—Climate Connection: Opportunity for Climate Mitigation, Conservation and Development?.- Soil Respiration and Carbon Storage of an Acrisol under Forest and Different Cultivations in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil.- The Clean Development Mechanism: Making it Operational.- Energy Use and CO2 Production in Tropical Agriculture and Means and Strategies for Reduction or Mitigation.- GHG Mitigation Potential and Cost in Tropical Forestry — Relative Role for Agroforestry.- Climate Variability and Deforestation—Reforestation Dynamics in the Philippines.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.11.2003 |
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Zusatzinfo | V, 277 p. |
Verlagsort | New York, NY |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie |
Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4020-1422-8 / 1402014228 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4020-1422-2 / 9781402014222 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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