Methane Emissions from Major Rice Ecosystems in Asia (Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, Vol. 91)

Wassmann, Reiner

ISBN 10: 0792367650 / ISBN 13: 9780792367659

Published by Springer, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Methane Emissions from Major Rice Ecosystems in Asia (Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, Vol. 91)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792367650
• ISBN 13: 9780792367659
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Rice production is affected by changing climate conditions and has the dual role of contributing to global warming through emissions of the greenhouse gas methane. Climate change has been recognized as a major threat to the global environment. Because of insufficient field data, rice-growing countries face a problem when trying to comply with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change stipulations to compile a national inventory of emissions and to explore mitigation options. Given the expected doubling in rice production in Asia, the need to evaluate the interaction between climate change and rice production is critical to forming a sound basis for future directions of technology developments by policy makers, agriculturists, environmentalists, rice producers, and rice consumers. This book comprises two sections. The first part documents a comprehensive overview of the results achieved from an inter-regional research effort to quantify methane emission from major rice ecosystems and to identify efficient mitigation options.