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Designing Low Carbon Societies in Landscapes (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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Designing Low Carbon Societies in Landscapes (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
Series: Ecological Research Monographs
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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 CO2 such as
forests, wetlands, and coral reefs are shrinking, and the human
impact is causing the ecological balance to deteriorate.
Controlling CO2 emissions and expanding the CO2 absorbers are keys
to reducing total CO2. Low carbon societies can be established by
maintaining the original CO2 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 research
toward that goal.
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