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The Greenhouse Gas Balance of Italy

An Insight on Managed and Natural Terrestrial Ecosystems

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Riccardo Valentini

    1. Department for Innovation in Biological,Agro-Food and Forest System (DIBAF), Impacts on Agriculture, Forest and Natural Ecosystem Division (IAFENT), Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Changes (CMCC), University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

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  2. Franco Miglietta

    1. FoxLab Institute of Biometeorology, National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and Edmund Mach Foundation, San Michele all'Adige, Italy

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  • Comprehensively addresses the full greenhouse gases budget of the Italian landscape
  • Presents the results of the national project CARBOITALY
  • Provides new data and analyses in the framework of climate policies
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE)

Part of the book sub series: Environmental Science (ENVSCIENCE)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The Overview

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Greenhouse Gas Balance of Italy: A Synthesis

      • Maria Vincenza Chiriacò, Riccardo Valentini
      Pages 3-10

    3. Carbon, Water and Energy Fluxes of Terrestrial Ecosystems in Italy

      • Dario Papale, Mirco Migliavacca, Edoardo Cremonese, Alessandro Cescatti, Giorgio Alberti, Manuela Balzarolo et al.
      Pages 11-45

    4. Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Emissions

      • Rita Baraldi, Francesca Rapparini, Osvaldo Facini, Claudia Justina Kemper Pacheco, Giorgio Matteucci, Enzo Brancaleoni et al.
      Pages 47-57

  3. Forests

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. The Role of Managed Forest Ecosystem: An Inventory Approach

      • Anna Barbati, Piermaria Corona
      Pages 61-70

    3. The Role of Managed Forest Ecosystems: A Modeling Based Approach

      • Angelo Nolè, Alessio Collalti, Marco Borghetti, Marta Chiesi, Gherardo Chirici, Federico Magnani et al.
      Pages 71-85

    4. Emissions from Forest Fires: Methods of Estimation and National Results

      • Valentina Bacciu, Donatella Spano, Michele Salis
      Pages 87-102

    5. Carbon Losses Due to Wood Harvesting and the Role of Wood Products

      • Marco Marchetti, Gherardo Chirici, Bruno Lasserre
      Pages 103-115

  4. Croplands, Grasslands and Natural Ecosystems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. Soil Carbon Stocks and Fluxes

      • Tommaso Chiti, Costantino Sirca, Mirco Rodeghiero, Donatella Spano, Riccardo Valentini
      Pages 119-133

    3. N2O Emission Factors for Italian Crops

      • Simona Castaldi, Giorgio Alberti, Teresa Bertolini, Annachiara Forte, Franco Miglietta, Riccardo Valentini et al.
      Pages 135-144

    4. Cropland and Grassland Management

      • Emanuele Lugato, Agata Novara, Damiano Gianelle, Loris Vescovo, Alessandro Peressotti
      Pages 145-156

  5. Regional Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. The Role of Vineyards in the Carbon Balance Throughout Italy

      • Damiano Gianelle, Luciano Gristina, Andrea Pitacco, Donatella Spano, Tommaso La Mantia, Serena Marras et al.
      Pages 159-171

    3. Afforestation and Reforestation: The Sicilian Case Study

      • Juliane Rühl, Luciano Gristina, Tommaso La Mantia, Agata Novara, Salvatore Pasta
      Pages 173-184

    4. Afforestation and Reforestation: The Friuli Venezia Giulia Case Study

      • Giorgio Alberti, Gemini Delle Vedove, Silvia Stefanelli, Giuseppe Vanone
      Pages 185-193

    5. Trying to Link Vegetation Units with Biomass Data: The Case Study of Italian Shrublands

      • Salvatore Pasta, Tommaso La Mantia, Serena Marras, Costantino Sirca, Donatella Spano, Riccardo Valentini
      Pages 195-211
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About this book

The book addresses in a comprehensive way the full greenhouse gases budget of the Italian landscape, focusing on land use and terrestrial ecosystems. In recent years there has been a growing interest in the role of terrestrial ecosystems with regard to the carbon cycle and only recently a regional approach has been considered for its specificity in terms of new methodologies for observations and models and its relevance for national policies on mitigation and adaptation to climate changes. In terms of methods this book describes the role of flux networks and data-driven models, airborne regional measurements of fluxes and specific sectoral approaches related to important components of the human and natural landscapes. There is also a growing need on the part of institutions, agencies and policy stakeholders for new data and analyses enabling them to improve their national inventories of greenhouse gases and their compliance with the UNFCCC process. In this respect the data presented is a basis for a full carbon accounting and available to relevant stakeholders for improvements and/or verification of national inventories. The wealth of research information is the result of a national project, CARBOITALY, which involved 15 Italian institutions and several researchers to provide new data and analyses in the framework of climate policies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department for Innovation in Biological,Agro-Food and Forest System (DIBAF), Impacts on Agriculture, Forest and Natural Ecosystem Division (IAFENT), Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Changes (CMCC), University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

    Riccardo Valentini

  • FoxLab Institute of Biometeorology, National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and Edmund Mach Foundation, San Michele all'Adige, Italy

    Franco Miglietta

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