The strategy is to make these intensively managed lands a net sink of atmospheric carbon dioxide through judicious management of inputs.
Released March 8, 2010
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Americans covet urban green spaces. We manicure golf courses, tend lawns, work the soil for home gardens, create landscaping masterpieces, and turn parks into playgrounds. Yet little is known of the carbon footprint impacts that come with heavy use and intense management.
Ohio State University’s Fawcett Center will be the site of a one-day carbon management and sequestration symposium in April to bring together leading world experts, key academic researchers, public opinion and thought leaders, carbon offset programmers, and elected officials to lay the research groundwork for terrestrial carbon sequestration in urban ecosystems.
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