Martin M. Halmann. Chemical Fixation of Carbon Dioxide: Methods for Recycling CO2 into Useful Products, CRC, US, 084934428X,-Chemical Fixation of Carbon Dioxide presents new concepts and results from research into the problems caused by increasing levels of carbon dioxide. The book discusses the limitations of natural plant photosynthesis as a sink for carbon dioxide and emphasizes chemical fixation as an important alternative. A number of significant topics are covered, including new coupling reactions for producing compounds such as carbamates, urethanes, and heterocyclic structures; new catalyst systems, particularly for methanation and methanol synthesis; the use of homogeneous solution photosensitizers and heterogeneous semiconductor photocatalysts to photoreduce carbon dioxide with visible light and sunlight; and electrochemical reduction. This book will be a useful reference for organic chemists working on environmental problems, chemical engineers, environmental chemists, professionals at research facilities, and students. More

Toshinori Kojima. The Carbon Dioxide Problem: Integrated Energy and Environmental Policies for the 21st Century, CRC, 1998, 9056991272, The problems of global warming and environmental pollution are some of the most difficult challenges this planet faces in the 21st century. Carbon dioxide, often identified as one of the culprits, is an inevitable product of the combustion of fossil fuels, necessary for our modern economies to survive. Thus, the "Carbon Dioxide Problem" refers to the extremely complex matter of limiting carbon dioxide concentrations to levels that pose little environmental risk without devastating national economies and reducing living standards on the planet.
This timely book offers solutions to the global warming problem that lie in the development of comprehensive energy and environmental policies that emphasize the need to use energy efficiently while looking to develop alternative renewable sources. The experience of Japan is particularly relevant due More

A. M. Mannion. Carbon and its Domestication, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006, 1402039573, -Carbon is chemically versatile and is thus the body and soul of biological, geological, ecological and economic systems. Its appropriation by humans through diversion of its biogeochemical cycle has been a mainstay of development. This domestication is characterized by a number of thresholds: control of fire, development of agriculture, expansion of Europe, fossil-fuel use and biotechnology. All have exacted an environmental toll, not least being climatic change and biodiversity loss. Carbon management now and in the future is a ‘hot’ political issue. There is no existing book which focuses on the pivotal role of carbon in the environment and society and the ways in which carbon has been domesticated in time and space to generate wealth and political advantage. Students of environmental science, geography, biology and general science will find this work invaluable as a cross-disciplinary text. More  

Chemical Oceanography and the Marine Carbon Cycle by Steven Emerson and John Hedges

Leonard Ridzon. The Carbon Cycle, Acres, US, 1994, 0911311467, £9.71

T. P. Snow. Carbon: The Sixth Element, Princeton University Press, May 2007, 0691125880, £18.95

John R. Trabalka (for the US Department of Energy).

Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and the Global Carbon Cycle, University Press of the Pacific, 2005, 1410223744, £34.50

The Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Humans, Climate, and the Natural World (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) Series) by Christopher B. Field, Michael R. Raupach, and Susan Hill MacKenzie (Paperback - Mar 15, 2004)

Carbon-Oxygen and Nitrogen Cycles: Respiration, Photosynthesis, and Decomposition (Earth's Processes) by Rebecca Harman (Hardcover - Sep 15, 2005)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II. B. Metz, O. Davidson, H. de Coninck, M. Loos, L. Meyer (eds). IPCC special report on carbon dioxide capture and storage, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 0521685516,