Conflict Resolution Network/South Asia - Hosted by ACRIS
Networking Conflict Resolution Resources within South Asia
The Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) International Section (ACRIS) established Regional Networks to support our members and colleagues around the world, and to promote conflict resolution capacity building. We encourage ACR members and non-members alike to join together to expand our field worldwide. The goal of the Regional Networks is to provide p ...learn more
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Created: Jul 05, 2008
Updated: Nov 21, 2009
Membership: Open To Apply
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BIOCHAR for environmental management
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This is a very readable and well organized, up to the minute introduction to the world of biochar. You could teach a full course out of this book, or excerpt discussions and details to backup your own presentations to policy makers, businesses, farmers and community groups. Full review, and ordering from this page gets you a 20% discount as well.
About Biochar:
”Biochar is the carbon-rich product when biomass (such as wood, manure or crop residues) is heated in a closed container with little or no available air. It can be used to improve agriculture and the environment in several ways, and its stability in soil and superior nutrient-retention properties make it an ideal soil amendment to increase crop yields. In addition to this, biochar sequestration, in combination with sustainable biomass production, can be carbon-negative and therefore used to actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, with major implications for mitigation of climate change. Biochar production can also be combined with bioenergy production through the use of the gases that are given off in the pyrolysis process”.