Carbon Sequestration Potential of Agroforestry Systems Opportunities and Challenges /

This multi-authored volume contains peer-reviewed chapters from the world's leading researchers and professionals in this topic.  It is a compendium of original research articles, case studies, and regional overviews and summarizes the current state of knowledge on carbon sequestration potentia...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Kumar, B. Mohan (Editor ), Nair, P. K. Ramachandran (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
Colección:Advances in Agroforestry, 8
Temas:
Forestry.
Applied ecology.
Environment.
Agriculture.
Biotic communities.
Applied Ecology.
Environmental Sciences.
Ecosystems.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Contributors
  • List of Reviewers
  • Preface
  • Section 1. Measurement and Estimation
  • 1. Methodological challenges in estimating carbon sequestration potential of agroforestry systems
  • 2. Carbon sequestration potential of agroforestry practices in temperate North America
  • 3. Carbon sequestration in European agroforestry systems
  • 4. Carbon sequestration potential of agroforestry systems in Africa
  • 5. Soil carbon sequestration in cacao agroforestry systems: a case study from Bahia, Brazil
  • 6. Carbon sequestration potential of silvopastoral and other land use systems in the Chilean Patagonia
  • 7. Carbon pools in tree biomass and soils under rotational woodlot systems in eastern Tanzania
  • 8. Silvopasture and carbon sequestration with special reference to the Brazilian Savanna (Cerrado)
  • 9. Biomass and carbon accumulation in land use systems of Claveria, the Philippines
  • Section 2. Agrobiodiversity and Tree management
  • 10. Linking carbon, biodiversity and livelihoods near forest margins: the role of agroforestry
  • 11. Assessing the carbon sequestration in short rotation coppices of Robinia pseudoacacia L. on marginal sites in northeast Germany
  • 12. Does tree management affect biomass and soil carbon stocks of Acacia mangium Willd. stands in Kerala, India?
  • Section 3. Policy and Socioeconomic Aspects
  • 13. Can forest carbon finance influence land tenure security in project areas? Preliminary lessons from projects in Niger and Kenya
  • 14. Constructing public policy in a participatory manner: from local carbon sequestration projects to network governance in Chiapas, Mexico
  • 15. Inpang carbon bank in northeast Thailand: A community effort in carbon trading from agroforestry projects
  • 16. The socioeconomic context of carbon sequestration in agroforestry: A case study from homegardens of Kerala, India
  • Subject index.

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