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OverviewWildfires, 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nicole MöldersPublisher: Springer Imprint: Springer Volume: 44 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.471kg ISBN: 9789400715264ISBN 10: 9400715269 Pages: 190 Publication Date: 15 September 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Physical and chemical principles.- 3. Impact of land-cover and land-cover changes.- 4. Future challenges.- 5. Conclusions.- Appendix: List of abbreviations.- Index.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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