The Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Humans, Climate, and the Natural World (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment) (SCOPE) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559635266 ISBN 13: 9781559635264

Publisher: Island Press, 2004

Synopsis

This work is an assessment of the state of current knowledge of the carbon cycle by a group of leading experts. It gives an introductory overview of the carbon cycle and covers both biophysical and human aspects of the cycle.

About this title

About the Author:

Christopher B. Field is Director of the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, in Stanford, California. Michael R. Raupach is Chief Research Scientist in the CSIRO Land and Water Landscape Systems Research Directorate in Australia. The Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) was established by the International Council for Science (ICSU) in 1969. It brings together natural and social scientists to identify emerging or potential environmental issues and to address jointly the nature and solution of environmental problems on a global basis.With its headquarters in Paris, France, SCOPE programs are conducted by volunteer scientists from every inhabited continent of the globe.

About this edition

• Publisher: Island Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1559635266
• ISBN 13: 9781559635264
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 568
• Editor: Field Christopher B., Raupach Michael R.