Carbon Cycling, Climate Change and Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Air, Climate Change and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 August 2023) | Viewed by 1197
Special Issue Editors
Interests: CO2 and greenhouse gases; climate change; climate modeling; agrometeorology; artificial intelligence (AI); drought and extreme events
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a new Special Issue “Carbon Cycling, Climate Change and Sustainability” of the journal Sustainability.
As you know, the surge in CO2 and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has caused a consistent increase in the Earth’s temperature during the last few decades. The interactions between the land, atmosphere and ocean (LAO) try to limit GHG concentrations by balancing, absorbing and sequestering them. Nowadays, due to anthropogenic feedback, the sink and source of CO2 have changed. Therefore, scientists should focus on ways to regulate these rapid changes. One of the fundamental methods of regulation is monitoring and analyzing the carbon cycle (CC), since it plays a crucial role in CO2 concentrations, emissions and variations. The monitoring of CC is a significant way of reusing carbon in a trip with four components, namely Photosynthesis, Decomposition, Respiration, and Combustion. Tracing and analyzing CC in LAO is challenging due to its complex feedback mechanism. CC is located at the core of climate change and sustainability. Hence, there is an urgent need to understand the interactions and feedback mechanism between CC and LAO and their relation to natural and anthropogenic climate change. Consequently, we aim to focus on "Carbon Cycling, Climate Change, and Sustainability".
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Investigation/simulation of the long-term carbon cycle in an agricultural system.
- Assessment of sustainable carbon cycle in soil characteristics and soil management practices.
- Analyzing the restoring sustainable carbon cycles in farming, cropping systems, agroecology, and environmental sciences under climate change conditions.
- Implementing all the agricultural practices, which increase soil carbon sequestration.
- Monitoring carbon storage and its role in carbon cycle sustainability of ecosystems
- Assessing and modeling the long-term (or short-term) carbon cycle, atmospheric composition, carbon footprint, and fossil fuels.
- Identifying natural (pre-industrial) and anthropogenic climate change using proxy and instrumental records.
- Carbon cycling and ocean circulation, such as understanding and quantifying of carbon storage changes in the ocean; CO2 variations in the ocean over past and future periods with considering CC changes; and all related concepts that help to reveal the CC responses and feedbacks in ocean circulation.
- Implementing effective domestic and global decisions and practices on sustainable carbon cycles and carbon footprint (such as carbon farming practices, etc.).
- Presenting new studies, policies, and methods on the industrial carbon removals and carbon sequestration techniques.
Prof. Dr. Nasrin Salehnia
Dr. Syed Azharuddin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carbon farming
- soil organic carbon
- carbon footprint
- ocean circulation
- atmospheric composition
- fossil fuels
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