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Carbon Sequestration in nature is of critical value for resolving vital issues of our times, namely the state of ecological paucity natural resource management global warming, climate change and sustainable development. It is free carbon in nature, particularly in the from of CO2 that is responsible for most of the ills of our environment and that makes future of life on earth bleak and unsustainable. Earth's gradually but steadily becoming warmer is one of the grimmest and the gravest issues humanity on earth has ever faced in the recorded history. We have a variety of ecosystems to remove free carbon from the environment and fix it into plant biomass and soil. The earth's ecosystems, however, present a somber picture and sequestration of increasing carbon sequestration issues together as both are interrelated and are responsible for the rapidly going on processes leading to global warming and climate change. We can meet climate change challenges and usher in a sustainable future blossoming with humanity by enhancing carbon sequestration in nature, which eventually would be done by maintaining the health of our ecosystems in the first place, and by controlling carbon emissions through a number of technological, institutional, and political measures. Divided in to eight sections, the book comprises 39 chapters contributed by many eminent scientists concerned with the state of the earth. The First section attempts to present an agenda for the ecologically shattered and economically globalised world which might help us understand the gravity of the word's common future and guide us to take up effective measures to mitigate the problems and revive our tormented earth. The subsequent section present and discuss scenarios, anthropogenic dimensions and management of ecosystem diversity; climate change, critical environmental problems, alarming trends, species extinction and all that; a search for viable options; Himalayan mountains; carbon sequestration as a life-building, life-enhancing and life-conserving phenomenon; potential technological and institutional mechanisms, carbon trading, policies; eco-ethics, eco-philosophy and psychology as vital elements pivoting conservation-oriented transcendental development. The book would prove to be of extraordinary value towards resolving the most crucial issues of our times.
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Table of contents
- Editorial: Revive our Tormented Planet: Ecosystem Diversity and Carbon Sequestration Hold the Key
- List of Contributors
- AGENDA FOR THE REVIVAL OF OUR TORMENTED PLANET Issues Facing the Ecologically Shattered and Economically Globalised World
- 1. Ecosystem Diversity and Carbon Sequestration: Some Issues Confronting Humanity
- 2. Global Climate Change: A Challenge before Humanity
- 3. Management of Ecosystems for Livelihoods and Carbon Sequestration in India: Harmony within Natural Elements a Mantra for Human Happiness
- 4. Carbon Sequestration: A Vision
- 5. Carbon–A Material for the Twenty First Century: Prospects and Promises
- ECOSYSTEM DIVERSITY IN INDIA Scenarios, Anthropogenic Dimensions and Management
- 6. Forest Ecosystems and Carbon Sequestration in India: Keeping the Greenhouse Gas at Bay
- 7. Operationalizing CDM Afforestation and Reforestation Projects in India: Analysis of Barriers at National and International Level
- 8. Microbial Diversity as an Indicator of Soil Organic Carbon Status: Redevelopment of Humid Subtropical Perturbed Ecosystem
- 9. Ecosystem Diversity and Sustainability: Towards Middle Path
- 10. Sacred Groves in India: Celebrating Sanctity of Life through Biodiversity Conservation
- LIFE ON EDGE Climate Change, Critical Environmental Problems, Alarming Trends, Species Extinction and the Likes
- 11. Climate Change and its Effects on Global Biodiversity: Evidences of Alarming Trends and Species Extinction in Different Eco-Regions of the World
- 12. Climate Change and its Effects on Global Biodiversity: Triggering Effects and Frightening Prospects
- 13. Impact of Climate Change on Crop Productivity: Need of Adjustments in Agriculture
- 14. Global Warming: Contribution of Livestock and its Control
- ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT A Search for Viable Options
- 15. Role of Biofertilizers to Mitigate Environmental Problems: Soil Fertility Management in Hill Agro-ecosystems
- 16. Effect of Sugar Industry Effluents on Seeds Germination and Seedling Growth of Linum usitatissimum L.: The Green Revolutio Bowl Reels Under Industrial Pollution
- 17. Soil Carbon Sequestration: A Study in Eucalyptus Hybrid Plantations
- 18. Alternate Use of Biomass for Sustainable Development: Gasification Technology for Solving Energy Crisis in Rural Areas
- 19. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: A Unique Organism of Potential Implications for Carbon Sequestration
- 20. Role of Plant Transcription Factor-DOF in Enhancing Nitrogen Use Efficiency: Molecular Means for Promoting Organic Farming
- 21. Fibre Yielding Plants and Carbon Sequestration: Banking on Ecological Attributes of Economic Plants
- HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS Rejuvenated Fragile Ecosystems can Give Appropriate Response to Global Warming
- 22. Sustainable Sloping Land Management Options: Potential Effects on Carbon Sequestration in Upland Soils in the Himalayas
- 23. Rangelands Resources in the Mountains: Management Objective Should Focus on Carbon Sequestration Enhancement
- 24. Himalayan Conservation and Development: The Mighty Mountains can put the Earth’s Climate Systems in Order
- CARBON SEQUESTRATION A Life-building, Life-sustaining and Life-enhancing Phenomenon on Earth
- 25. Carbon Sequestration: Global Warming Mitigation through Improved Carbon Economy Linked with Photosynthesis
- 26. Carbon Sequestration on Agricultural Lands: Ameliorating Sustainability and Environmental Security
- 27. Soil Carbon Sequestration: A Potential Approach to Climate Change Mitigation
- 28. Enhancing Carbon Sequestration: Pondering over Some Strategies
- ENHANCING CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN NATURE Potential Technological and Institutional Mechanisms, Carbon Trading and Policies
- 29. Coastal Wetland Ecosystem in Sequestering Carbon Directly by Geological Repositories and Phytoplankton Fertilization: Workable Strategies for Maintaining Ecological Integrity
- 30. Carbon Sequestration: Mitigating Environmental and Socio-economic Impacts of Global Warming and Climate Change
- 31. Forest Management: Carbon Mitigation and Social Issues
- 32. Enhancing Carbon Sequestration in India: Economic Issues and Mechanisms
- 33. Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol: Global and Indian Concerns
- 34. Carbon Sequestration, Global Climate and Laws: What Has Been Done and What Remains?
- USHERING IN A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE Eco-ethics, Eco-philosophy and Psychology as Core Elements Pivoting Conservation-oriented Tra scendental Development
- 35. Conservation of Biodiversity for Sustainable Development: Eco-ethics as an Indispensable Element
- 36. Environmental Services Emanating from the Himalayan Mountains: Valuation Against the Backdrop of Eco-philosophy and Chasing the Goal of Global Happiness
- 37. Ecosystem Conservation for Carbon Sequestration: Let it be in the Popular Psyche of India
- 38. Socio-cultural Values Promoting Conservation of Nature's Biodiversity: Heal the Earth for Enhancing Carbon Sequestration
- 39. Environmental Psychology in Landscaping: A Dimension of Sustainability Operations