Table Of ContentBAMBOO
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
BAMBOO
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
Arun Jyoti Nath, PhD
Gudeta W. Sileshi, PhD
Ashesh Kumar Das, PhD
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Names: Nath, Arun Jyoti, author. | Sileshi, Gudeta W., author. | Das, Ashesh Kumar, author.
Title: Bamboo : climate change adaptation and mitigation / Arun Jyoti Nath, Gudeta W. Sileshi,
Ashesh Kumar Das.
Description: Palm Bay, Florida : Apple Academic Press, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
| Summary: “This new book, Bamboo: Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, presents an abundance of
important information and case studies that deal with bamboo farming and its effects from and on climate change
adaptation and mitigation. There is a lack of research on the role of bamboo in climate change adaptation and
mitigation; this volume helps to fill that gap by providing information that will enable policymakers to consider
bamboo farming and its implications in carbon trading. Bamboo represents one of the world’s highest yielding
renewable natural resources and is an important source of non-timber forest products for subsistence use as well as
for materials with many commercial and industrial uses. There are over 1500 documented applications of bamboo
products, including materials for bridges, construction, furniture, agricultural tools, handicrafts, papers, textiles,
boards, edible shoots, and bioenergy applications. With their fast growth rate and rapid propagation, bamboo
forests have a high C storage potential, especially when the harvested culms are transformed into durable products
and thereby prolonging the C storage. Environmentalists love bamboo for its quick growth and for the fact that it
can be harvested without harming the environment. This volume will be a rich resource on the role of bamboo in
ecological farming and climate change mitigation. Key features: Explores the role of bamboo on climate change
and environment and ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change Considers overlooked bamboo biomass
resources Explains carbon capture and storage potential in bamboo Assesses opportunities for carbon farming and
carbon trading in bamboo Looks at the role on bamboo cultivation on the livelihood of rural populations Details the
soil properties needed for bamboo-based agroforestry systems”-- Provided by publisher.
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Subjects: LCSH: Bamboo. | Bamboo--Utilization. | Carbon dioxide mitigation.
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Dedication
To My Beloved Parents
—Arun Jyoti Nath
About the Authors
Arun Jyoti Nath, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science,
Assam University, Silchar, India
Arun Jyoti Nath, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Ecology and Environ-
mental Science at Assam University, Silchar, India, and a PLOS ONE
Academic Editor since 2017. He is an ecologist with diverse experience in
research and teaching. He holds a BSc degree in Botany, an MSc degree in
Ecology, and a PhD degree in plant ecology and management. He has over
15 years of experience in bamboo research. His research interest includes
ecosystem carbon dynamics at regional and landscape scale.
Gudeta W. Sileshi, PhD
Senior Scientist in Agro-Ecology; Senior Fellow, School of Agriculture,
Earth and Environmental Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal,
South Africa
Gudeta W. Sileshi, PhD, is a senior scientist in agro-ecology and was
formerly the regional representative of the World Agroforestry Centre
(ICRAF) in southern Africa and a lecturer at the Alemaya University of
Agriculture in Ethiopia. He is currently a freelance consultant in agricul-
ture and the environment and a Senior Fellow in the School of Agriculture,
Earth and Environmental Science at the University of KwaZulu-Natal,
South Africa. He holds a BSc degree in biology, an MSc degree in agricul-
ture, and a PhD degree in insect ecology. He has over 25 years of experi-
ence in agricultural research and development. His major research interest
is in production ecology linking plot level patterns to landscape level
processes and ecosystem services. With over 200 papers in peer-reviewed
journals and three co-edited books, he has widely published on forest
ecology, sustainable agriculture and food security across sub-Saharan
Africa and the Indian sub-continent.
About the Authors
viii
Ashesh Kumar Das, PhD
Professor, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science,
Assam University, Silchar, Assam, India
Ashesh Kumar Das, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Ecology and
Environmental Science at Assam University in Silchar, Assam, India. His
research interests include tree diversity and ecology, carbon management
in forest and agricultural ecosystem, and soil ecology. Professor Das has
published over 120 peer-reviewed research papers in leading journals.
Contents
Abbreviations .......................................................................................................xi
Preface ...............................................................................................................xiii
1. General Introduction ..................................................................................1
2. Ecosystem Services and Human Uses of Bamboos ................................11
3. Soil Quality Assessment of Bamboo-Based Systems ..............................31
4. Role of Bamboo in Ecosystem-Based Adaptation ..................................43
5. Traditional Bamboo Products: Are They Green? ..................................55
6. Biomass Models .........................................................................................65
7. Bamboo-Based Home Gardens: Opportunities for
Biomass Production and Carbon Sequestration ....................................89
8. Soil Properties and Carbon Sequestration in
Bamboo-Based Systems ..........................................................................105
9. Carbon Farming and Carbon Trading .................................................119
10. Challenges, Conclusions, and Recommendations ................................135
Color insert of illustrations ..........................................................................A–H
Index .................................................................................................................141
