Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes: Impact on Climate and Air Quality 2012 Edition Contributor(s): Mölders, Nicole (Author) |
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ISBN: 9400736959 ISBN-13: 9789400736955 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) - Science | Earth Sciences - Geography - Science | Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology |
Dewey: 333.7 |
Series: Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library |
Physical Information: 0.42" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.63 lbs) 190 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Wildfires, changing glaciers, deforestation, open-pit mining, increasing demands for food and bio-fuel production and the growth of megacities change our landscape. The book comprehensively reviews the current knowledge on how natural and anthropogenic land-use/cover changes affect weather, air quality and climate worldwide and explains how these changes may trigger further land-use/cover changes. It discusses how anthropogenic land-use/cover changes have affected local and regional climate and air quality since the settlement of America and the industrialisation. It addresses the topic how long-range transport of pollutants and dust of devasted areas as well as teleconnections may cause changes far away from the areas where the land-use/cover changes occurred, for which land-use/cover change may become an international issue similar to CO2. It also discusses relations to global change and future societal and scientific challenges related to land-use/cover changes. |