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RECORD NUMBER: 887 OF 1771Main Title | Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes Impact on Climate and Air Quality / [electronic resource] : | ||||
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Type | EBOOK | ||||
Author | Mölders, Nicole. | ||||
Publisher | Springer Netherlands, | ||||
Year Published | 2012 | ||||
ISBN | 9789400715271 | ||||
Subjects | Geography ; Meteorology ; Physical geography ; Environmental protection | ||||
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Collation | X, 190 p. online resource. | ||||
Notes | Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only |
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Contents Notes | 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. |