Carbon Inventory Methods: Handbook for Greenhouse Gas Inventory, Carbon Mitigation and Roundwood Production ProjectsGlobal awareness of environmental issues has increased on an unprecedented scale. Deforestation, land degradation, desertification, loss of biodiversity, global warming and climate change are some of the environmental issues linked directly to t- restrial ecosystems, both natural and human-managed. Forests, grasslands and c- plands constitute over 63% of the global land area. Terrestrial ecosystems play a critical role in the global carbon cycle. Global rise in demand for food, fodder, fuel and roundwood is increasing the pressure on land-use systems, and conservation and sustainable development of land-use systems are critical for meeting those demands sustainably and stabilizing CO concentration in the atmosphere to miti- 2 gate global climate change. My interest in carbon flows in forest ecosystems was initiated about 15 years ago with the global concern about the contribution of the growing CO emissions 2 to climate change. My first paper about carbon flows was published in 1996 in Climatic Change; since then my interest and the global interest have only increased (R). |
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above-ground biomass adopted agroforestry annual application approach assessment baseline scenario below-ground biomass boundary calculation carbon inventory carbon mitigation carbon pools carbon stock changes Chapter climate change conservation converted cost countries cover cropland deadwood default degraded density depends described determined emissions equations estimating example factors field forest land GHG inventory given global grassland ground growth guidelines harvest hectare impacts implementation important increase involves IPCC land-based land-use categories land-use systems limitations litter measurement methods mitigation projects models monitoring obtained organic matter parameters particularly period phase plant plantation points practices preparation presented procedure production programmes project activities project area rates recording reforestation region remote sensing removals root roundwood production sample plots sectors selected shrub soil carbon soil organic carbon sources species Step studies Table techniques tree types uncertainty values vegetation volume weight wood
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