Editors:
- The Arctic zone is most responsive to climate warming
- To be published right as the product of the International Polar Year
- Strong international collaboration
- Land-cover change is a cross-disciplinary science
- Land-cover and land-use change effects may be the major contributor to climate change
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This volume is a compilation of studies on interactions of land-cover/land-use change with climate in a region where the climate warming is most pronounced compared to other areas of the globe. The climate warming in the far North, and in the Arctic region of Northern Eurasia in particular, affects both the landscape and human activities, and hence human dimensions are an important aspect of the topic. Environmental pollution together with climate warming may produce irreversible damages to the current Arctic ecosystems. Regional land-atmosphere feedbacks may have large global importance. Remote sensing is a primary tool in studying vast northern territories where in situ observations are sporadic. State-of-the-art methods of satellite remote sensing combined with GIS and models are used to tackle science questions and provide an outlook of current land-cover changes and potential scenarios for the future.
Audience: The book is a truly international effort involving U.S. and European scientists. It is directed at the broad science community including graduate students, academics and other professionals in this field.
Editors and Affiliations
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NASA Headquarters, Washington, USA
Garik Gutman
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University of Helsinki, Department of Physics, iLEAPS International Project Office, Helsinki, Finland
Anni Reissell
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate
Editors: Garik Gutman, Anni Reissell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9118-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9117-8Published: 27 October 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9026-1Published: 21 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9118-5Published: 26 October 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 306
Topics: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Biogeosciences, Terrestial Ecology, Social Sciences, general