The Role of Agriculture in Climate Change Mitigation

Lucjan Pawlowski, Zygmunt Litwińczuk, Guomo Zhou

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781000168891
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Agronomy
• Index: Technology & Engineering

According to IPCC reports, one of the greatest threats to the Earth ecosystems is climate change caused by the anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases, mostly carbon dioxide, mainly from the combustion of fossil fuels, cement production and land-use change which leads to an excessive temperature rise. Agriculture and forestry are responsible for quiet big emissions of greenhouse gases: CO2, CH4 and N2O, and have significant potential to reduce these emissions mainly through enhancement of CO2 absorption by terrestrial ecosystems.

To evaluate the impact of agriculture on climate change, ruminant farming should be also taken into account. These animals emit considerable amounts of methane which has strong greenhouse effects. Methane emissions may be reduced by using appropriate feed for ruminants. Decreasing the meat consumption of these animals can also make an important contribution to reducing methane emissions.

The methods for reducing greenhouse gas emissions through appropriate management of terrestrial ecosystems and animal husbandry are widely discussed in The Role of Agriculture in Climate Change Mitigation. The book will be of interest to academics, professionals and policy makers in environmental sciences.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• About the editors
• Sustainable energy: Technology, industry, transport and agriculture
• Cultivation of catch crop as a sustainable way of reducing CO2 content in the atmosphere
• Biochar for greenhouse gas mitigation
• Forest and climate change – a global view and local cases
• Cereals role in carbon dioxide absorption in China and Poland
• Mitigation of greenhouse gas emission through anaerobic digestion of livestock waste
• Impacts of regeneration on soil respiration after clear-cutting in Chinese fir forests
• Impact of waste and by-products management on soil carbon sequestration
• Mitigation of climate changes by carbon sequestration in biomass under elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration – facts and expectations
• Methanogenesis and possibilities of reducing it in ruminants
• Improving furfural tolerance of recombinant E. coli in the fermentation of lignocellulosic sugars into ethanol
• Simulating carbon sequestration capacity of forests in subtropical area: A case study in Hunan Province, southern China
• Effects of neighborhood tree species diversity on soil organic carbon and labile carbon in subtropical forest
• Stability of particulate organic matter from the coastal soils in North China: Indication of moieties and stable isotopic ratios
• Stand structure and mass-ratio effect more than complementarity effect determine productivity in subtropical forests
• Anaerobic co-digestion of brewery spent grain and municipal sewage sludge under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions
• Author Index