Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes
Impact on Climate and Air Quality
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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.
1. 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.
| Reihe/Serie | Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library ; 44 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | X, 190 p. |
| Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie | |
| Schlagworte | Meteorologie |
| ISBN-10 | 94-007-1526-9 / 9400715269 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-94-007-1526-4 / 9789400715264 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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