Gordon Bonan (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Co

Seeing the Forest for the Trees

Forests, Climate Change, and Our Future

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Planting trees to improve climate is an age-old idea, once refuted in scientific dispute more than a century ago, and reborn today with climate change worries. Spanning the 1500s to the present, this book examines the history and science of forestâ climate influences, and forest management to mitigate climate change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 203mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 718g
• ISBN-13: 9781108467841
• ISBN-10: 1108467849
• Artikelnr.: 66344986

Autorenporträt

Gordon Bonan is senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He is the author of Ecological Climatology (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Climate Change and Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and numerous publications on terrestrial ecosystems and climate. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society, and the Ecological Society of America.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Historical Perspective: 1. The Forest-Climate Question; 2. Tempering the Climate, c. 1600
1840; 3. Destroying the Rains, c. 1500
1830; 4. Planting Trees for Rain, c. 1840
1900; 5. Making a Science: Forest Meteorology, c. 1850
1880; 6. American Meteorologists Speak Out, c. 1850
1910; 7. Views of Forests; Part II: The Scientific Basis: 8. Global Physical Climatology; 9. Forest Biometeorology; 10. Scientific Tools; 11. Forest Microclimates; 12. Water Yield; 13. Carbon Sequestration; 14. Forest Macroclimates; 15. Case Studies; 16. Climate-Smart Forests; 17. Forests of the Future; 18. The Forests Before Us; Notes; References; Index.