• Integrates the science, practice, and policy of soil carbon sequestration
• Discusses the techniques that can mitigate global greenhouse warming
• Provides innovative and environmentally friendly practices for improved land management and crop production
• Identifies strategies for widespread adoption of management practices to enhance productivity and the soil carbon pool
• Includes a foreword by Dr. Debbie Reed

With chapters by economists, policy makers, farmers, land managers, energy company representatives, and soil scientists, Agricultural Practices and Policies for Carbon Sequestration in Soil explores a broad range of topics. It examines topics such as the effects of soil tillage and mulch rate, soil monitoring and assessment, soil fertility management, policy options, and the economic issues associated with carbon sequestration.

This volume caps a "series" of books from leading researchers on carbon sequestration in soils by integrating the science with the economic and policy issues surrounding it. It provides agricultural scientists, farmers, and policy makers with innovative and environmentally friendly practices for improved land management and crop production.

Agricultural Practices and Policies for Carbon Sequestration in Soil helps to identify strategies that can lead to widespread adoption of management practices that will enhance productivity, the soil carbon pool, and the overall environment.

Contents

1. Historical Perspectives
   • Introduction
   • National Trends in Adopting Conservation Practices as Best Management Practices
   • Why Carbon Sequestration in Soil?
   • Historical Perspective in Land Use Change and Soil Carbon Dynamics

2. Conservation Tillage and Residue Management
   • Effects of Crop Rotations on Soil Organic Carbon in Semiarid Prairie - 10 Year Study
   • Mulch Rate and Tillage Effects on Carbon Sequestration and CO2 Flux from an Alfisol of Central Ohio
   • Effects of Tillage on Inorganic C Distribution in Soils of the Northern Great Plains of the U.S.
   • Climatic Influences on C Storage with no Tillage
   • Long-Term Effects of Moldboard Plowing on Tillage-Induced CO2 loss
   • Tillage-Soil Organic Matter Relationship in Long-Term Experiments
   • Effect of Conservation Tillage on C Sequestration of C Duplex Soil of SE Australia

3. Monitoring and Assessment
   • Analysis and Reporting of C Sequestration and Greenhouse Gases for Conservation Districts in Iowa
   • Estimating Regional C Sequestration Potential of Agricultural Management Options Using GIS and Dynamic SOM Model
   • Management Induced Changes Affecting Soil C Storage and Nutrient Cycling in Conventional and Organic/Low-Input Systems
   • Land Use Effects on Soil Carbon Pool in Two Major Land Resources Areas of Ohio
   • "CQESTER" - Predicting Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils
   • Case Study of Cost vs. Accuracy of Measuring Carbon Stock in Terrestrial Ecosystems

4. Soil Management
   • Soil Fertility Management with Zeolite Amendments. I. Zeolite Effect on the Carbon Sequestration. A Review
   • Effect of Rotation on the Composition of Soil Organic Matter
   • Effect of Climate Change on Management Soil C: Northern Peat Soils
   • Application of Management Decision Aid for Sequestration of C and N in Soil
   • Soil C Turnover after 28 Years of Residue Managed Wheat and Sorghum Production

5. Soil Structure and C Sequestration
   • Soil Organic Carbon Pool in Forest and Pasture of a Reclaimed Mine-Land in Ohio
   • Efficiencies of Conversion of Residue C to Soil C
   • Changes of Organic Matter and Aggregate Stability of the Arable Waterlogged Soils

6. Economics of C Sequestration
   • Designing Efficient Practices for Agricultural Soil Carbon Sequestration
   • Making Soil C Sequestration an Economic Undertaking for Farmers
   • Economic Impacts of C Sequestration Policy Scenarios in the U.S. House
   • Operationalizing C Sequestration in Soils Through Appropriate Policies

7. Policy Issues and Industrial View Points
   • Carbon Sequestration Potential Canadian Farmland: A Farmer's Perspective
   • Role of Commercial Energy Companies in C Sequestration in Soils
   • Contribution of Root-Derived Carbon Soil Organic Matter
   • Carbon Sequestration in Soil with Conservation Tillage
   • Policy Issues of C Sequestration in Soils
   • Farming Carbon Through Conservation Tillage and Residue Management
   • Making the Market for Soil Carbon a Reality
   • Role of Agro-Industries in Realizing Potential of Soil C Sinks

8. Regional Pools
   • Potential for Carbon Accumulation and Sequestration under Brachiaria Pastures in Brazil
   • Carbon Content of Desert and Semi-Desert Soils for Central Asia
   • Pastureland Use in Southeastern US: Implications for C Sequestration
   • On-Farm C Sinks: Production and Sequestration Complementarities
   • C Balance of Hungarian Soils
   • Some Key Uncertainties in the Global Distribution of Soil and Peat Carbon

9. Summary
   • Where Do We Go Now in the Interaction of Policy and Science?

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