Designing Low Carbon Societies in Landscapes
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
20.05.2014
Abbildungen
XI, 111 illus., 23 illus. in color., schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen
Herausgeber
Nobukazu Nakagoshi + weitereVerlag
Springer TokyoSeitenzahl
353
Maße (L/B/H)
24.1/16/2.6 cm
Gewicht
717 g
Auflage
1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-4-431-54818-8
This book focuses on three major means of achieving a low carbon society: conservation of the ecosystem complex, changes of arrangement of landscapes, and creation of biodiversity. There are specific countermeasures to be taken for carbon absorption in the three types of landscapes—urban, cultural, and natural—because their carbon balances differ. Urban landscapes are promising sites because they have the potential for greening and the creation of biodiversity. Cultural landscapes in the tropics had not been actively researched until recently, but this book now presents a collection of several cases focused on those areas. Natural landscapes had existed in abundance in developing countries; later, nature protection areas were designated to coexist with development. Now, however, developmental pressure has penetrated into those nature protection areas, and landscape ecological projects are urgently required to preserve them.
As a result of global warming, abnormal weather phenomena including super typhoons have occurred frequently in recent years. The major underlying cause is the higher concentration of greenhouse gases released by human activities. As well, major natural absorbers of CO 2 such as forests, wetlands, and coral reefs are shrinking, and the human impact is causing the ecological balance to deteriorate. Controlling CO 2 emissions and expanding the CO 2 absorbers are keys to reducing total CO 2 . Low carbon societies can be established by maintaining the original CO 2 balance through integration of multiple tools, with contributions from diverse fields such as physics and chemistry, physiology and humanities, and education. On the basis of an international consensus, the environment must be protected no matter what sacrifices are required. As this book demonstrates, achieving a low carbon society is a top priority, and landscape conservation is the first step in ecological researchtoward that goal.
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