Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Linking land use and the carbon cycle / Derek T. Robinson [and others] -- An introduction to carbon cycle science / Galina Churkina -- The contribution of land use and land-use change to the carbon cycle / R.A. Houghton -- An economic analysis of the effect of land use on terrestrial carbon storage / Robert Mendelsohn -- Remote sensing for mapping and modeling of land-based carbon flux and storage / Nancy H.F. French [and others] -- Atmospheric observations and inverse modeling approaches for identifying geographical sources and sinks of carbon / Anna M. Michalak -- Limitations, challenges, and solutions to integrating carbon dynamics with land-use models / Tom P. Evans [and others] -- Modeling for integrating science and management / Virginia H. Dale and Keith L. Kline -- Carbon emissions from land-use change : model estimates using three different data sets / Atul K. Jain, Prasanth Meiyappan, and Tosha Richardson -- A system to integrate multiscaled data sources for improving terrestrial carbon balance estimates / Jordan Golinkoff and Steven W. Running -- Simulating biogeochemical impacts of historical land-use changes in the U.S. Great Plains from 1870 to 2003 / William J. Parton [and others] -- Carbon signatures of development patterns along a gradient of urbanization / Marina Alberti and Lucy R. Hutyra -- Managing carbon : ecological limits and constraints / R. César Izaurralde, Wilfred M. Post, and Tristram O. West -- Effects of wildland fire management on forest carbon stores / Matthew D. Hurteau -- Soil carbon dynamics in agricultural systems / Cynthia A. Cambardella and Jerry L. Hatfield -- U.S. policies and greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture / Carol Adaire Johes, Cynthia J. Nickerson, and Nancy Cavallaro -- Opportunities and challenges for offsetting greenhouse gas emissions with forests / Timothy Pearson and Sandra Brown -- Opportunities and challenges for carbon management on U.S. public lands / Lisa Dilling, Richard Birdsey, and Yude Pan -- Design and planning of residential landscapes to manage the carbon cycle : invention and variation in land use and land cover / Lauren Lesch Marshall and Joan Iverson Nassauer -- Forests, carbon, and the global environment : new directions in research / David L. Skole [and others] -- Ecosystem sustainability through strategies of integrated carbon and land-use management / Dennis Ojima [and others] -- Perspectives on land-change science and carbon management / Daniel G. Brown, Derek T. Robinson, and Nancy H.F. French.

As governments and institutions work to ameliorate the effects of anthropogenic CO2 emissions on global climate, there is an increasing need to understand how land-use and land-cover change is coupled to the carbon cycle, and how land management can be used to mitigate their effects. This book brings an interdisciplinary team of fifty-eight international researchers to share their novel approaches, concepts, theories and knowledge on land use and the carbon cycle. It discusses contemporary theories and approaches combined with state-of-the-art technologies. The central theme is that land use and land management are tightly integrated with the carbon cycle and it is necessary to study these processes as a single natural-human system to improve carbon accounting and mitigate climate change. The book is an invaluable resource for advanced students, researchers, land-use planners and policy makers in natural resources, geography, forestry, agricultural science, ecology, atmospheric science and environmental economics.