Introduction. Global Warming and Ecological Degradation. The Global Carbon Cycle and Terrestrial Biosequestration. Terrestrial Carbon, Food Security, and Biosequestration Enhancement. Land Management Examples, Practices, and Principles. Conservation Policy and the Politics of Growth. Appendix A: Measures and Conversion Units. Appendix B: Surface Albedo. Index.
Wayne A. White lives with his wife on an 80-acre farm in Jefferson County, Kansas, where they raise grass-fed beef, apples, pears, berries, biomass energy, and a variety of vegetables and herbs. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from Kansas State University, has taught sociology and political science, and has worked as a legislative lobbyist, grant writer, and program administrator for a statewide nonprofit legal services organization. White owns and cares for forest and grassland in Kansas, Michigan, and Ontario, Canada. His interests include forestland health, high-diversity native grassland mixtures, and land management practices that protect and enhance ecological diversity.
"Lucidly and succinctly, Wayne Allan White guides the reader
through the scientific complexities of climate change and its
environmental impacts. Although with a sense of urgency about the
serious ecological threats at hand, his conviction that something
can and should be done about these problems animates the work. …
This illuminating work will be accessible to a wide range of
readers interested in climate change and the emergent ecological
crisis."—Robert J. Antonio, The University of Kansas, Lawrence,
USA
"… both a solemn reminder of the trouble we’re in and a hopeful
treatise on sustainable possibilities that await us when we decide
to act. Well-crafted and empirically rich, this superb book gives
us an intelligent assessment of the ecological and social
conditions that constitute the all too real problem of climate
change." —Michael Carolan, Chair, Department of Sociology, Colorado
State University, USA, and author of The Real Cost of Cheap Food
"... shines a spotlight on a topic that has not received sufficient
attention in the growing literature on global climate change—the
extent to which land management practices can reduce concentrations
of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The picture is a frightening
one—the book starts with a concise and informative summary of
recent scientific findings which indicate that global warming is
not only ubiquitous but accelerating. But the author also provides
a way forward by documenting the ways in which greenhouse gases can
be removed from the atmosphere through restorative land management
practices. ... The author’s ability to make a complicated subject
accessible to the general reader makes for a great blueprint for
combating climate change." —Eric Hanley, University of Kansas,
Lawrence, USA"Wayne’s book is an important voice in support of a
rising global consciousness with respect to protecting and
nurturing nature’s free services for all generations—rather than
simply exploiting them for immediate, personal gain. ... Wayne’s
message is clear and gentle, yet profound in its simplicity: by
working in harmony with nature, we not only begin to heal the
damage we humans have caused by degrading the global ecosystem over
the centuries, but we also begin to heal ourselves by accepting our
role as trustees of the earth as a biological living trust—of which
all generations are the beneficiaries. ... This book makes an
important contribution to the series on socioenvironmental
sustainability by offering an excellent blueprint of the systemic
components and actions necessary to begin a conscious, collective
process of healing our home planet, each within our own
capacity."—From the Series Editor’s Note by Chris Maser,
Consultant, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
"Lucidly and succinctly, Wayne Allan White guides the reader
through the scientific complexities of climate change and its
environmental impacts. Although with a sense of urgency about the
serious ecological threats at hand, his conviction that something
can and should be done about these problems animates the work. …
This illuminating work will be accessible to a wide range of
readers interested in climate change and the emergent ecological
crisis."—Robert J. Antonio, The University of Kansas, Lawrence,
USA
"… both a solemn reminder of the trouble we’re in and a hopeful
treatise on sustainable possibilities that await us when we decide
to act. Well-crafted and empirically rich, this superb book gives
us an intelligent assessment of the ecological and social
conditions that constitute the all too real problem of climate
change." —Michael Carolan, Chair, Department of Sociology, Colorado
State University, USA, and author of The Real Cost of Cheap Food
"... shines a spotlight on a topic that has not received sufficient
attention in the growing literature on global climate change—the
extent to which land management practices can reduce concentrations
of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The picture is a frightening
one—the book starts with a concise and informative summary of
recent scientific findings which indicate that global warming is
not only ubiquitous but accelerating. But the author also provides
a way forward by documenting the ways in which greenhouse gases can
be removed from the atmosphere through restorative land management
practices. ... The author’s ability to make a complicated subject
accessible to the general reader makes for a great blueprint for
combating climate change." —Eric Hanley, University of Kansas,
Lawrence, USA"Wayne’s book is an important voice in support of a
rising global consciousness with respect to protecting and
nurturing nature’s free services for all generations—rather than
simply exploiting them for immediate, personal gain. ... Wayne’s
message is clear and gentle, yet profound in its simplicity: by
working in harmony with nature, we not only begin to heal the
damage we humans have caused by degrading the global ecosystem over
the centuries, but we also begin to heal ourselves by accepting our
role as trustees of the earth as a biological living trust—of which
all generations are the beneficiaries. ... This book makes an
important contribution to the series on socioenvironmental
sustainability by offering an excellent blueprint of the systemic
components and actions necessary to begin a conscious, collective
process of healing our home planet, each within our own
capacity."—From the Series Editor’s Note by Chris Maser,
Consultant, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
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