A Biomass Future for the North American Great Plains: Toward Sustainable Land Use and Mitigation of Greenhouse Warming

by Norman J. Rosenberg

Book Overview

The North American Great Plains is a major global breadbasket but its agriculture is stressed by drought, heat, damaging winds, soil erosion and declining ground water resources. Biomass production and processing on the Plains would partially restore a perennial vegetative cover and create employment opportunities. This book explores the possibility that the ecology and economy of the Plains region, and similar regions, would benefit from the introduction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402056001
• ISBN13: 9781402056000
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.5"