Land Use Land-Use Change and Forestry

The exchange of carbon between the atmosphere and biosphere is an important factor in controlling global warming and climate change. Consequently it is important to examine how carbon flows between different pools and how carbon stocks change in response to afforestation reforestation and deforestation and other land-use activities. This IPCC Special Report is a comprehensive state-of-the-art examination of the scientific and technical implications of carbon sequestration and the global carbon cycle. It also examines environmental and socioeconomic issues conservation sustainable resource management and development issues in relation to carbon sequestration. The volume will be invaluable for government policymakers business/industry analysts and officials environmental groups and researchers in global change atmospheric chemistry soil science and economics.