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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9789400715264
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-94-007-1526-4
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- Erscheinungstermin: 15.09.2011
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 2012
- Serie: Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library
- Produktform: Gebunden, HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 471 g
- Seiten: 190
- Format (B x H x T): 160 x 241 x 16 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt