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Jonas Ardö

Jonas Ardö

Professor

Jonas Ardö

Soil carbon sequestration and climate change in semi-arid Sudan

Author

  • Jonas Ardö

Summary, in English

Climate change poses risk for natural and human systems in Africa. Increasing temperatures and changes in precipitation patterns is likely to affect agriculture, pastoralism and forestry. Mitigation of increasing atmospheric concentration of CO2 through soil carbon sequestration in semi-arid ecosystems may be beneficial to soil properties and cultivation. This paper describes and discusses soil carbon sequestration in relation to climate change in semi-arid regions, with special attention to the Sudan. It is anticipated that adaptation to climate changes is a more reasonable way to cope with future climate change than mitigation through soil carbon sequestration, especially for low emitting countries in Africa such as the Sudan.

Department/s

  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Pages

140-163

Publication/Series

Sudan Academy of Sciences Journal-Special Issue (Climate Change)

Volume

11

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Sudan Academy of Sciences

Topic

  • Physical Geography

Keywords

  • climate change
  • adaptation
  • GHGs
  • mitigation

Status

Published

Research group

  • remote sensing

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1816-8272