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.
| ISBN: | 9789400736955 |
| Publication date: | 27th November 2013 |
| Author: | Nicole Mölders |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer Netherlands |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 190 pages |
| Series: | Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library |
| Genres: |
Meteorology and climatology Physical geography and topography Pollution and threats to the environment |
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.
Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes features in the following genres: Meteorology and climatology, Physical geography and topography, Pollution and threats to the environment
Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes is available in Paperback, Hardback
Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes was written by Nicole Mölders and published by Springer an imprint of Springer Netherlands
Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes has 190 pages
Yes it is part of Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library series