Biosequestration and Ecological Diversity: Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change and Environmental Degradation

by Wayne A. White

Overview

Written for land owners and managers as well as students and researchers, this book discusses ways to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and build soil by changing the way people use and manage land. The author examines the scientific evidence for biosequestration, land practices that sequester carbon, and policies that encourage such p

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367866044
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	09/30/2020
Series:	Social Environmental Sustainability
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

"Lucidly and succinctly, Wayne Allan White guides the reader through the scientific complexities of climate change and its environmental impacts. Although with a sense of urgency about the serious ecological threats at hand, his conviction that something can and should be done about these problems animates the work. … This illuminating work will be accessible to a wide range of readers interested in climate change and the emergent ecological crisis."
—Robert J. Antonio, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

"… both a solemn reminder of the trouble we’re in and a hopeful treatise on sustainable possibilities that await us when we decide to act. Well-crafted and empirically rich, this superb book gives us an intelligent assessment of the ecological and social conditions that constitute the all too real problem of climate change."
—Michael Carolan, Chair, Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, USA, and author of The Real Cost of Cheap Food

"... shines a spotlight on a topic that has not received sufficient attention in the growing literature on global climate change—the extent to which land management practices can reduce concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The picture is a frightening one—the book starts with a concise and informative summary of recent scientific findings which indicate that global warming is not only ubiquitous but accelerating. But the author also provides a way forward by documenting the ways in which greenhouse gases can be removed from the atmosphere through restorative land management practices. ... The author’s ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader makes for a great blueprint for combating climate change."
—Eric Hanley, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

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