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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 Title: Effects of Land-Use Change on Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations
Book Subtitle: South and Southeast Asia as a Case Study
Editors: Virginia H. Dale
Series Title: Ecological Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8363-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1994
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-94117-2Published: 11 November 1993
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-8365-9Published: 08 November 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-8363-5Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0070-8356
Series E-ISSN: 2196-971X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 386
Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Ecotoxicology, Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Nature Conservation