Overview
- Discusses the impact of land-use/cover changes on the atmosphere, considering the water, energy and trace gas cycle
- Discusses the impact of land-use/cover changes on the atmosphere in various climate regions of the world including the polar regions
- Explores climate and air quality impacts of land-use/cover changes in relation to global change
Part of the book series: Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library (ATSL, volume 44)
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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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes
Book Subtitle: Impact on Climate and Air Quality
Authors: Nicole Mölders
Series Title: Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1527-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1526-4Published: 15 September 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3695-5Published: 27 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1527-1Published: 15 September 2011
Series ISSN: 1383-8601
Series E-ISSN: 2215-162X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 190
Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Physical Geography