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Roger C. Dahlman Environmental Sciences Division U.S. Department of Energy Washington, D.C. The potential for humans to alter Earth's atmosphere has been recognized since the end of the 19th century when Arrhenius estimated that a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide could alter the atmospheric radiation balance and raise average global temperature. Today, atmospheric CO concentrations play an important part in the 2 climate-change debate. Sources and sinks of CO associated with land use can be 2 significant determinants of the rate and magnitude of atmospheric CO change. 2 Combustion of fossil fuels and the deforestation associated with land-use change both contribute CO to the atmosphere; in contrast, biological processes on land create 2 potential sinks for the excess CO . Thus, land-use change and associated biological 2 processes become important elements in assessments of future atmospheric CO 2 increase; land-cover properties also affect the Earth's albedo, which is a climate feedback.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Biology, life sciences Life sciences: general issues

• Full title: Effects of Land-Use Change on Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations
• Subtitle: South and Southeast Asia as a Case Study
• Author: Virginia H. Dale
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 386
• EAN: 9781461383659
• ISBN: 146138365X
• ID: 05194721
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Weight: 622 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. November 2011

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