Carbon Balance and Management

期刊简介：Carbon Balance and Management is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that encompasses all aspects of research aimed at developing a comprehensive policy relevant to the understanding of the global carbon cycle.The global carbon cycle involves important couplings between climate, atmospheric CO2 and the terrestrial and oceanic biospheres. The current transformation of the carbon cycle due to changes in climate and atmospheric composition is widely recognized as potentially dangerous for the biosphere and for the well-being of humankind, and therefore monitoring, understanding and predicting the evolution of the carbon cycle in the context of the whole biosphere (both terrestrial and marine) is a challenge to the scientific community.This demands interdisciplinary research and new approaches for studying geographical and temporal distributions of carbon pools and fluxes, control and feedback mechanisms of the carbon-climate system, points of intervention and windows of opportunity for managing the carbon-climate-human system.Carbon Balance and Management is a medium for researchers in the field to convey the results of their research across disciplinary boundaries. Through this dissemination of research, the journal aims to support the work of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and to provide governmental and non-governmental organizations with instantaneous access to continually emerging knowledge, including paradigm shifts and consensual views.

【译文】碳平衡与管理是一本开放获取、同行评审的在线期刊，涵盖了旨在发展全面政策以理解全球碳循环的所有研究方面。全球碳循环涉及气候、大气二氧化碳与陆地和海洋生物圈之间的重要耦合。由于气候变化和大气成分的变化导致的碳循环当前转变，被广泛认为对生物圈和人类的福祉具有潜在危险，因此，在生物圈（陆地和海洋）的背景下监测、理解和预测碳循环的演变，对科学界来说是一个挑战。这需要跨学科研究和研究碳库和通量地理和时空分布、碳气候系统控制与反馈机制、干预点和管理碳气候-人类系统的机会窗口的新方法。碳平衡与管理是研究人员在学科之间传达其研究成果的媒介。通过这种研究成果的传播，该期刊旨在支持政府间气候变化专门委员会（IPCC）的工作，并为政府和非政府组织提供对不断涌现的知识，包括范式转变和共识观点的即时访问。