Nicole Mölders

Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes

Impact on Climate and Air Quality

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library 44
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-94-007-3695-5
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9789400736955
• ISBN-10: 9400736959
• Artikelnr.: 39906984

Inhaltsangabe

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.