What are the seasonal and spatial patterns of natural gas, petroleum, and coal consumption for the leading fuel consuming nations of the world? What are the resultant CO2 emissions patterns associated with fuel consumption? How are theses patterns evolving through time and what drives these changes?
How is per capita energy consumption related to population density? What factors in population distribution and urban design can influence per capita energy consumption?
How much energy can be economically and sustainably generated from agricultural and forestry residues?
Soil is one of the largest terrestrial carbon reservoirs. How is the carbon storage influenced by land use and land cover changes?
How is carbon cycled through forest ecosystems? What is the decay rate of snags and dead organic matter? What will be the effect on the carbon cycle in forests in a changing climate?
How can land use and land management techniques improve terrestrial carbon sequestration? How should a performance standard baseline be determined to function as a carbon emissions offset under the Kyoto Protocol?
How should seasonality be quantified or assessed? How does the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) apply to spatio-temporal data? What is the effect of aggregation on the distribution of data in terms of the central limit theorem?
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