Carbon Research - Call for papers: BRICS Carbon
The following special issue in Carbon Research is open for submissions. The submission deadline is October 16, 2023.
Call for papers: BRICS Carbon
Lead Guest Editor:
Yilai Lou, Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Prof. Lou works on soil management for sustainable agriculture, and on soil response and feedback in a changing climate. He also investigates how soil micro-food web, C and N cycling, and soil architecture respond to nature restoration and nutrient management strategies based on a multi-site long-term field experiment network in a national scale. The experiment network includes major climate types, cropping systems and soil types of China.
Guest Editors:
Sartaj Ahmad Bhat, River Basin Research Center, Gifu University, Japan
Dr. Bhat focuses on Bioremediation, Vermitechnology, Metagenomics, Wastewater Treatment, Soil Pollution, Activated Sludge, Heavy Metals, Water quality, and Solid Waste Management.
Liangshan Feng, Liaoning Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Prof. Feng has long been engaged in the research on dryland farming system and efficient utilization of agricultural resources. He edited 3 works and published more than 80 papers. He has successively presided over 18 scientific research projects such as the national special support plan for high-level talents and the general projects of the National Nature Fund, and his research achievements have won 1 second prize of the national scientific and technological progress award, 3 first prizes of provincial and ministerial level research awards and 2 second awards. More than 20 authorized patents, 9 software copyrights have been obtained.
Risely Ferraz-Almeida, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Dr. Ferraz-Almeida works on Soil quality, Animal manure applications in sustainable agriculture, Nitrification inhibitors’ applications in tropical soils, and Soil wastes effects on carbon compartments and CO2-C emissions.
Olga Nesterva, Department of Soil Science, Far Eastern Federal University, Russian Federation
Dr. Nesterva focuses on (1) Effects of biochar on soil CO2 fluxes from agricultural field experiments in Russian; (2) Expansion of wheat thermal suitability of Russia in response to climate change; (3) legal and organizational enhancement of the mechanisms of soil fertility preservation in Russian Federation.
Rishikesh Singh, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
Interest areas of Dr. Singh include Plant ecology, Biochar and carbon sequestration, Land use change and management, Soil carbon dynamics, Emerging agronomic practices, and Water management.
Antoninova Natalya Yurievna, Institute of Mining, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
Dr. Yurievna works on (1) A comprehensive assessment of the spatial and temporal patterns of the impact of mining enterprises on depositing environments with justification of ecological and economic parameters characterizing the consequences of these processes; (2) Forecasting and monitoring the dynamics of land use and transformation of natural ecosystems; (3) Development of theoretical foundations for the formation of biogeochemical barriers for the localization of heavy metals for the purpose of their further extraction and the development of measures for the ecological rehabilitation of disturbed lands.
Aims and Scope:
During the 2022 BRICS conference, the five BRICS countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have greatly focused on sustainable development. The environment pollution and climate change present a huge threat to the human-being of our time. Better understanding ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycling processes and developing more effective strategies in sequestering carbon and alleviating greenhouse gas emissions are urgent needs to optimize ecosystem services. Additionally, engineered carbonaceous materials such as biochar and bioplastics have been increasingly developed and applied to remedy environmental contamination, to restore degraded ecosystems and to mitigate climate change. This special issue specially focusing on the latest advances in carbon-nitrogen cycling and management of ecosystems and engineered carbonaceous materials in BRICS countries aims to promote scholarly communications among the BRICS countries and to share the relevant research achievements to the world. This will be significant for advancing the relevant scientific field and for informing carbon management and carbonaceous material application for a sustainable world.
Possible Topics:
• Engineered carbonaceous materials (e.g., biochar, bioplastics, nanomaterials, catalysts etc.) and their applications to environmental remediation and restoration;
• Natural carbonaceous materials (e.g., humic substances, natural organic matter, cellulose, black carbon, etc.) and their biogeochemical cycling and ecological functions; Carbon and renewable energy generation;
• Carbon cycle, non-CO2 greenhouse gases and global change;
• Carbon neutrality and carbon-negative technologies;
• Other related novel sciences and technologies with global perspectives.
Articles will undergo all of the journal's standard peer review and editorial processes outlined in its submission guidelines. (this opens in a new tab)