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.
| Autorius: | Nicole Mölders |
| Serija: | Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library |
| Leidėjas: | Springer Netherlands |
| Išleidimo metai: | 2011 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 200 |
| ISBN-10: | 9400715269 |
| ISBN-13: | 9789400715264 |
| Formatas: | Knyga kietu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
| Žanras: | Meteorology and climatology |
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