Peatlands and Climate in a Ramsar context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peatlands and Climate in a Ramsar context write by Alexandra Barthelmes. This book was released on 2015-06-09. Peatlands and Climate in a Ramsar context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Peatlands in the Nordic Baltic region and elsewhere in the world store large amounts of carbon and are at the same time important for conservation of biodiversity. Thus peatlands are space-effective carbon stocks, but when drained carbon and nitrogen are released as greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and as nitrate to the surface water, while methane will be released when rewetting. New knowledge reveals that one of the most efficient means to mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere are the restoration of drained peatlands by reestablish former high water tables on organic soils.This project on synergies between climate change mitigation and the restoration of peatlands has been conducted under a regional Ramsar initiative covering the Nordic and Baltic countries (NorBalWet), with support from the Nordic Council of Ministers. The report contains chapters on peatlands and their role in climate change mitigation, individual country chapters and the role of the Ramsar Convention.
Peatlands and Climate in a Ramsar Context TemaNord
Peatlands and Climate in a Ramsar Context TemaNord - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peatlands and Climate in a Ramsar Context TemaNord write by Alexandra Barthelmes. This book was released on 2015. Peatlands and Climate in a Ramsar Context TemaNord available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Peatlands, climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation
Peatlands, climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peatlands, climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation write by Hans Joosten. This book was released on 2015-04-27. Peatlands, climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Did you know that • peatlands hold more carbon than all forests of the world combined? • drained peatlands are responsible for 25% of total CO2 emissions in the Nordic and Baltic countries? • rewetting of peatlands substantially reduces these emissions? This policy brief pleads for increased commitments to conserving and rewetting peatlands; for abolishing regulations that drive peatland drainage; for changing drained peatland use to paludicultures; and for setting up good practice demonstration projects. It stresses the need for better communicating the benefits of wet peatlands and the costs arising from damaged ones. Finally it highlights the role of peatland rewetting and restoration in reaching national and international policy targets for climate change mitigation, water quality improvement and biodiversity conservation.
Peatlands and Climate Change
Peatlands and Climate Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peatlands and Climate Change write by Maria Strack. This book was released on 2008. Peatlands and Climate Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The International Peat Society IPS established a joint IPS Working Group on Peatlands and Climate Change in the end of the year 2005. The Working Group's task was to compile information into a summary of available knowledge to help the IPS and other actors to understand the role of peatlands and peat within the current context of global climate change.
Peatlands
Peatlands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peatlands write by I.P. Martini. This book was released on 2007-03-28. Peatlands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the past two decades there has been considerable work on global climatic change and its effect on the ecosphere, as well as on local and global environmental changes triggered by human activities. From the tropics to the Arctic, peatlands have developed under various geological conditions, and they provide good records of global and local changes since the Late Pleistocene.The objectives of the book are to analyze topics such as geological evolution of major peatlands basins; peatlands as self sustaining ecosystems; chemical environment of peatlands: water and peat chemistry; peatlands as archives of environmental changes; influence of peatlands on atmosphere: circular complex interactions; remote sensing studies of peatlands; peatlands as a resource; peatlands degradation, restoration, plus more. * Presents an interdisciplinary approach, with an emphasis on Earth Science, and addresses the need for intergration between subdisciplines and the developing of new approaches* Synthesizes the evolutionary, ecological, and chemical characteristics of major peatlands, as well as focuses on the environmental changes, from climate changes to surface ares changes due to human activities* Covers topical studies of worldwide interest and provides examples from many different countries
