The Global Carbon Cycle : Integrating Humans, Climate, and the Natural World.

Intro -- About Island Press/ SCOPE -- SCOPE Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Colorplates, Figures, Tables, Boxes, and Appendixes -- Colorplates -- Foreword -- Ackowledgments -- Ch 1: The Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Humans, Climate, and the Natural World -- Part I: Crosscutting Issues -- Ch 2: Current Status and Past Trends of the Global Carbon Cycle -- Ch 3: The Vulnerability of the Carbon Cycle in the 21st Century: An Assessment of Carbon-Climate-Human Interactions -- Ch 4: Scenarios, Targets, Gaps, and Costs -- Ch 5: A Portfolio of Carbon Management Options -- Ch 6: Interactions between CO2 Stabilization Pathways and Requirements for a Sustainable Earth System -- Part II: Overview of the Carbon Cycle -- Ch 7: A Paleo-Perspective on Changes in Atmospheric CO2 and Climate -- Ch 8: Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Sources and Sinks of Carbon Dioxide -- Ch 9: Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases -- Ch 10: Climate--Carbon Cycle Interactions -- Ch 11: Socioeconomic Driving Forces of Emissions Scenarios -- Part III: The Carbon Cycle of the Oceans -- Ch 12: Natural Processes Regulationg the Ocean Uptake of CO2 -- Ch 13: Variability and Climate Feedback Mechanisms in Ocean Uptake of CO2 -- Part IV: The Carbon Cycle of the Land -- Ch 14: A Primer on the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: What We Don't Know But Should -- Ch 15: Geographic and Temporal Variation of Carbon Exchange by Ecosystems and Their Sensitivity to Environmnetla Perturbation -- Ch 16: Current Consequences of Past Actions: How to Separate Direct from Indirect -- Part V: The Carbo Cycle of Land--Ocean Margins -- Ch 17: Pathways of Atmospheric CO2 through Fluvual Systems -- Ch 18: Exchanges of Carbon in the Coastal Seas -- Part VI: Humans and the Carbon Cycle -- Ch 19: Pathwaysof the Regional Development and the Carbon Cycle.

Ch 20: Social Change and CO2 Stabilization: Moving away from the Carbon Cultures -- Ch 21: Carbon Transport through International Commerce -- Part VII: Purposeful Carbon Management -- Ch 22: Near- and Long-Term Climate Change Mitigation Potential -- Ch 23: Unanticipated Consequences: Thinking about Ancillary Benefits and Costs of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation -- Ch 24: International Policy Framework on Climate Change: Sinks in Recent International Agreements -- Ch 25: A Multi-Gas Approach to Climate Policy -- Ch 26: Storage of Carbon Dioxide by Greening the Oceans? -- Ch 27: Direct Injection of CO2 in the Ocean -- Ch 28: Engineered Biological Sinks on Land -- Ch 29: Abatement of Nitrous Oxide, Methane, and the Other Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases: The Need for a Systems Approach -- List of Contributors -- SCOPE Series List -- SCOPE Executive Committee 2001-2004 -- Index -- Island Press Board of Directors.

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