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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Carbon is chemically versatile and is thus the body and soul of biological, geological, ecological and economic systems. Its appropriation by humans through diversion of its biogeochemical cycle has been a mainstay of development. This domestication is characterized by a number of thresholds: control of fire, development of agriculture, expansion of Europe, fossil-fuel use and biotechnology. All have exacted an environmental toll, not least being climatic change and biodiversity loss. Carbon management now and in the future is a ‘hot’ political issue.
There is no existing book which focuses on the pivotal role of carbon in the environment and society and the ways in which carbon has been domesticated in time and space to generate wealth and political advantage. Students of environmental science, geography, biology and general science will find this work invaluable as a cross-disciplinary text.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Reading, Reading, UK
A.M. MANNION
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Carbon and Its Domestication
Editors: A.M. MANNION
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3958-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3956-0Published: 12 January 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3957-7Published: 12 January 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3958-4Published: 10 June 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 320
Topics: Environment, general, Organic Chemistry, Environmental Management, Earth Sciences, general, Geography, general, Ecology