LAND USE AND THE CARBON CYCLE: ADVANCES IN INTEGRATED SCIENCE, MANAGEMENT, AND POLICY
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2013)

SNRE Professor Dan Brown served as editor on this book, along with three other collaborators. As governments and institutions work to ameliorate the effects of anthropogenic CO2 emissions on global climate, there is an increasing need to understand how land-use and land-cover change is coupled to the carbon cycle, and how land management can be used to mitigate their effects. This book brings an interdisciplinary team of 58 international researchers to share their novel approaches, concepts, theories and knowledge on land use and the carbon cycle. It discusses contemporary theories and approaches combined with state-of-the-art technologies. The central theme is that land use and land management are tightly integrated with the carbon cycle and it is necessary to study these processes as a single natural-human system to improve carbon accounting and mitigate climate change.

The book is an invaluable resource for advanced students, researchers, land-use planners and policy makers in natural resources, geography, forestry, agricultural science, ecology, atmospheric science and environmental economics.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dan Brown is a professor in the Environmental Informatics: GIS and Modeling field of study at the School of Natural Resources and Environment. He earned his bachelor of arts in geoenvironmental studies at Shippensburg University and his master of arts and doctoral degrees, both in geography, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2009, he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He joined SNRE in 1999.

His research interests focus on land-use change and its effects on ecosystems and on human vulnerability. This work connects a computer-based simulation (e.g., agent-based modeling) of land-use-change processes with GIS and remote sensing-based data on historical patterns of landscape change and social surveys. Though most of his earlier work has been in the United States, increasingly the scope is international, with projects in China, India and across Africa.