| 期刊全称 | A Biomass Future for the North American Great Plains | | 期刊简称 | Toward Sustainable L | | 影响因子2023 | Norman J. Rosenberg | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | Deals with an assessment of the sustainability of agriculture and water resources on the Plains and their vulnerability to climate change.Includes ‘primers‘ on climate, soils and vegetation, and on gl | | 学科分类 | Advances in Global Change Research | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | WHY THIS BOOK? This book is an exploration of the possibility that a significant portion of the North American Great Plains (NAGP), now primarily in rangeland, corn, soybean, and small-grain production, can be converted to the production of biomass-energy crops. Biomass can be used as a substitute for some of the fossil fuels the use of which is now increasing the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO ) 2 and contributing to global warming and climatic change. Such a land use change to biomass could lead not only to a global good but also to specific economic and environmental benefits for the NAGP region. This analysis is prompted by the following facts and trends: The emission of CO from fossil fuel combustion and tropical deforesta- 2 tion and the rising concentrations of other greenhouse gases make global warming a virtual certainty in this century; indeed the evidence is strong that a warming is already discernible. Global warming will lead to climatic change and, while the geographic d- tribution of this change is not yet known, most general circulation models (GCMs) suggest that midcontinental regions in the northern hemisphere (such as the NAGP) are likely to beco | | Pindex | Book 2007 |
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