CARBON - Growing resource demands and the disadv's associated with it
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- Growing resource demands
- DEFOREST-ATION
- For the timber and for the land they occupy.
- Land is cultivated for livestock feeding or cash crops.
- There is however, reforestation and afforestation occurring in NORTH AMERICA and CHINA.
- GRASSLAND CONVERSION
- temperate and tropical grasslands have become the subject of over exploitation.
- ploughing leads to loss of moisture, increase of CO2 and a change in runoff characteristics.
- URBAN-ISATION
- Land-use conversion resulting from need of more space for towns and housing and farming.
- due to a rapidly-growing population
- this is the MOST DISRUPTIVE form of development on the carbon and water cycles.
- Towns and cities as FOCAL POINTS of GHG emissions.
- DEFOREST-ATION
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