Carbon and its domestication

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: MANNION, A.M (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Subjects: Environment.; Organic chemistry.; Earth sciences.; Geography.; Ecology.; Environmental management.; Environment, general.; Organic Chemistry.; Environmental Management.; Earth Sciences, general.; Geography, general.

Carbon is chemically versatile and is thus the body and soul of biological, geological, ecological and economic systems. Its appropriation by humans through diversion of its biogeochemical cycle has been a mainstay of development. This domestication is characterized by a number of thresholds: contro...

Table of Contents:

• THE CHEMISTRY OF CARBON
• THE BIOLOGY OF CARBON
• THE GEOLOGY OF CARBON
• THE HISTORY AND CONSEQUENCES OF CARBON DOMESTICATION
• THE GEOGRAPHY OF CARBON
• THE POLITICIZATION OF CARBON
• CONCLUSION AND PROSPECT.