BIOCHAR FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Book ID/图书代码： 04090709B33954
English Summary/英文概要： The unique properties of black carbon-rich soils have only recently been recognized and international efforts have significantly increased to utilize this knowledge to improve agriculture and the environment in several ways.
Biomass-derived black carbon, charcoal or "biochar", as it is nowadays called, can be used as a soil amendment to improve nutrient retention and availability and therefore increase crop yields. Such a use of biochar is a significant advance over conventional organic matter management, as the biochar is more stable in soil and is better able to retain nutrients. In combination with sustainable biomass production, such a biochar sequestration can be carbon negative and therefore be used to actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, with obvious significance for mitigation of climate change. Biochar production can also be combined with bioenergy production through the use of the gases that are given off in the pyrolysis process. This book is the first to synthesize the expanding research literature on this topic. This is all the more important at this juncture in the development of a biochar technology, as it requires an interdisciplinary approach involving engineering, environmental sciences, agricultural sciences, economics, and policy. The book provides a comprehensive overview of current knowledge of the science and technology of biochar.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 富含黑碳元素的土壤独有的特性在近期才被逐渐意识到，全球范围也正努力利用这个发现，以提升农业和环境等等。
生物能量多指生化碳，黑炭和活性炭，就如同现在大家所熟知的那样，可以用作土壤改良以提高养分保留度和有效度，由此而提高粮食收获量。这样的例子在诸如有机物经营方面是显著的，因为生化碳在土壤中稳定性高，并能更好的保留养分。此外，它还可以与可持续性的生物量相结合，例如隔离生化碳可以抵消碳元素，从而可以有效的将二氧化碳从大气中分解出来，而这对于减轻气候变迁来说，显然具有重大意义。生化碳还可以利用高温分解出的气体与生物能结合。本书是首部对于此项话题的研究作品，在生物能量发展迅速之际是具有重大意义的，它利用多元科际研究法，范围涉及工程，环境科学，农业科学，经济学以及政策。本书对于现今生物能发展的技术以及科学提供了一个综合的概念。(ZH)
Awards/获奖情况：’A vital tool for policy-makers and scientists working on climate change mitigation.’---Chris Goodall, author of the bestselling How to Live a Low-Carbon Life
’This book, I believe, provides the basic information required to allow implementation of the single most important initiative for humanity’s environmental future. The biochar approach provides a uniquely powerful solution, for it allows us to address food security, the fuel crisis and the climate problem, and all in an immensely practical manner. With its careful evaluation of every aspect of biochar, this book represents a cornerstone of our future global sustainability.’---From the Foreword by Tim Flannery
’This book provides comprehensive information and analysis on biochar technology and its implications. It is an essential reference in fostering pro-poor policies on energy efficiency and GHG mitigation based on land and soil improvements that could bring more justice into the climate change agenda.’---Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Bonn, Germany
’Climate change seems an impossible problem. Impossible, that is, until one looks at the potential for biochar to permanently sequester atmospheric carbon. This wonderful volume is an invaluable handbook for those interested in the science and economics of soil amendment using biochar. A vital tool for policy-makers and scientists working on climate change mitigation.’ Chris Goodall, author of the bestselling How to Live a Low-Carbon Life
’A detailed and comprehensive book... while some chapters may be more easily understood by soil scientists, chapters looking at the many advantages of biochar provide interesting reading to researchers and scientists in general.’---LEISA
About the Author/作者介绍： 约翰·雷曼，是康奈尔大学土壤生物地球化学以及土壤节制生产科系副教授，并是International Biochar Initiative的联合创始人和董事会主席，以及农业生态系统，植物与土壤营养物循环杂志编辑部成员。
斯蒂芬·约瑟夫，是新南威尔士大学材料科学与工程系客座教授，International Biochar Initiative的副主席。
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