Agricultural practices and policies for carbon sequestration in soil

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The potential to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and global climate change is one factor diving agricultural policy development of programs that might pay farmers to implement practices to sequester carbon. With chapters by economists, policy makers, farmers, land managers, energy company representatives, and soil scientists, Agricultural Practices and Policies for Carbon Sequestration in Soil explores a broad range of topics. It examines topics such as the effects of soil tillage and mulch rate, soil monitoring and assessment, soil fertility management, policy options, and the economic issues associated with carbon sequestration. This volume caps a "series" of books from leading researchers on carbon sequestration in soils by integrating the science with the economic and policy issues surrounding it. It provides agricultural scientists, farmers, and policy makers with innovative and environmentally friendly practices for improved land management and crop production. Agricultural Practices and Policies for Carbon Sequestration in Soil helps to identify strategies that can lead to widespread adoption of management practices that will enhance productivity, the soil carbon pool, and the overall environment.--COVER. Read more... Content: Pt. I. Historical perspectives -- Carbon sequestration and the integration of science, farming, and policy -- Trend in use of conservation practices in U.S. agriculture and its implication for global climate change -- Why carbon sequestration in agricultural soils -- Historical perspective and implications of human dimensions of ecosystem manipulations : Sustaining soil resources and carbon dynamics -- Pt. II. Conservation tillage and residue management -- Mulch rate and tillage effects on carbon sequestration and CO2 flux in an alfisol in central Ohio -- Effects of tillage on inorganic carbon storage in soils of the norther great plains of the U.S. -- Climatic influences on soil organic carbon storage with no tillage -- Long-term effect of moldboard plowing on tillage-induced CO2 loss -- Tillage - soil organic matter relationships in long-term experiments in Hungary and Indiana -- Effect of soil management practices on the sequestration of carbon in duplex soils of southeastern Australia -- Exchangeable aluminum in composts rich in organic matter during the maturation process -- Pt. III. Monitoring and assessment -- analysis and reporting of carbon sequestration and greenhouse gases for conservation districts in Iowa -- Comparing estimates of regional carbon sequestration potential using geographical information systems, dynamic soil organic matter models, and simple relationships -- Soil C sequestration management effects on N cycling and availability -- Land-use effects on profile soil carbon pools in three major land resource areas of Ohio -- CQESTR - predicting carbon sequestration in agricultural cropland and grassland soils -- Case study of cost vs. accuracy when measuring carbon stock in a terrestrial ecosystem -- State-level analyses of C sequestration in agricultural soils -- Pt. IV. Soil management -- Changes in the thermal and moisture regimes in the plow zone under corn following no-till implementation -- Soil fertility management with zeolite amendments. I. Effect of zeolite on carbon sequestration : A review -- Soil fertility management with zeolite amendments : II. Zeolite effect on maintaining soil Eh -- Effect of crop rotation on the composition of soil organic matter -- Application of a management decision aid for sequestration of carbon and nitrogen in soil -- Soil carbon turnover in residue managed wheat and grain sorghum -- Pt. V. Soil structure and carbon sequestration -- Organic carbon sequestration by restoration of severely degraded areas in Iceland -- Influence of nitrogen fertility management on profile soil carbon storage under long-term bromegrass production -- Short-term crop rotation and tillage effects on soil organic carbon on the Canadian prairies -- Pt. VI. Economics of carbon sequestration -- Soil organic sequestration rates in reclaimed minesoils -- Efficiencies of conversion of residue C to soil C -- Changes of organic matter and aggregate stability of the arable surface waterlogged soils -- Pt. VII. Policy issues and industrial farmer viewpoints -- Designing efficient policies for agricultural soil carbon sequestration -- Emissions trading and the transfer of risk : Concerns for farmers -- Sequestering carbon : Agriculture's potential new role -- Public policy issues in soil carbon trading -- The politics of conservation -- Pt. VIII. Regional pools -- Growing the market : Recent developments in agricultural sector carbon trading -- Role of agro-industries in realizing potential of soil C sinks -- Potential for carbon accumulation under brachiaria pastures in Brazil -- Carbon content of desert and semidesert soils in central Asia -- Pastureland use in the southeastern U.S. : Implications for carbon sequestration -- On-farm carbon sinks : Production and sequestration complementarities -- Carbon balances in Hungarian soils -- Some key uncertainties in the global distribution of soil and peat carbon -- Organic carbon stocks in soils of Bulgaria -- Pt. IX. Summary -- Assessment of soil organic matter layers deposited at open pit coal mines -- Organic carbon stores in Alaska soils -- Agricultural practices and policy options for carbon sequestration : What we know and where we need to go. Abstract: The potential to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and global climate change is one factor diving agricultural policy development of programs that might pay farmers to implement practices to sequester carbon. With chapters by economists, policy makers, farmers, land managers, energy company representatives, and soil scientists, Agricultural Practices and Policies for Carbon Sequestration in Soil explores a broad range of topics. It examines topics such as the effects of soil tillage and mulch rate, soil monitoring and assessment, soil fertility management, policy options, and the economic issues associated with carbon sequestration. This volume caps a "series" of books from leading researchers on carbon sequestration in soils by integrating the science with the economic and policy issues surrounding it. It provides agricultural scientists, farmers, and policy makers with innovative and environmentally friendly practices for improved land management and crop production. Agricultural Practices and Policies for Carbon Sequestration in Soil helps to identify strategies that can lead to widespread adoption of management practices that will enhance productivity, the soil carbon pool, and the overall environment.--COVER