Publications by authors named "Ted Huffman"
Article Synopsis
- Land use significantly affects carbon stocks and greenhouse gas emissions, creating challenges in distinguishing between human and natural sources.
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has developed a managed land proxy to help identify lands influencing greenhouse gas changes, which governments report to the United Nations.
- Many countries struggle with consistently applying this proxy, often categorizing all land in certain uses as managed, but some, like Brazil, Canada, and the U.S., refine this by differentiating between managed and unmanaged lands using specific criteria.
The 2015 Paris Agreement reinforces the importance of the land sector and its contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions. Thus, there is growing interest in improving estimates of the GHG balance in response to land-use changes (LUCs) involving agriculture and forestry, for national-scale reporting, and for carbon (C) offsets. Large agricultural areas in Europe, Russia and North America are reverting to forest, either naturally or through planting, after abandonment of agricultural land, and this trend may have a substantial impact on carbon budgets.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnderstanding agricultural ecosystems and their complex interactions with the environment is important for improving agricultural sustainability and environmental protection. Developing the necessary understanding requires approaches that integrate multi-source geospatial data and interdisciplinary relationships at different spatial scales. In order to identify and delineate landscape units representing relatively homogenous biophysical properties and eco-environmental functions at different spatial scales, a hierarchical system of uniform management zones (UMZ) is proposed.
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