The role of sustainable agriculture and renewable-resource management in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and increasing sinks in China and India

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1797, 2002, Pages 1741-1761

  Pretty, J N ^a   Ball, A S ^a   Xiaoyun, Li ^a   Ravindranath, N H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avoided emissions; Carbon sequestration; China; India; Renewable energy; Sustainable agriculture

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHINA; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INDIA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION; BIOMASS; CARBON; CHINA; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INDIA; SOIL;

EID: 0037103613     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2002.1029     Document Type: Review

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