Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes [electronic resource] :Impact on Climate and Air Quality / by Nicole Mölders.
by Mölders, Nicole [author.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
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BookSeries: Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library: 44Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.Description: X, 190 p. online resource.ISBN: 9789400715271.Subject(s): Geography | Meteorology | Physical geography | Environmental protection | Earth Sciences | Meteorology/Climatology | Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution | Physical GeographyOnline resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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.
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 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.
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