Global Ecodynamics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxv

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2. Global ecodynamics

   • Kirill Ya. Kondratyev, Costas A. Varotsos, Vladimir F. Krapivin, Victor P. Savinykh

   Pages 1-69

3. Greenhouse effect problems

   • Kirill Ya. Kondratyev, Costas A. Varotsos, Vladimir F. Krapivin, Victor P. Savinykh

   Pages 71-132

4. Land ecosystems and global ecodynamics

   • Kirill Ya. Kondratyev, Costas A. Varotsos, Vladimir F. Krapivin, Victor P. Savinykh

   Pages 133-190

5. Global environmental change and the World Ocean

   • Kirill Ya. Kondratyev, Costas A. Varotsos, Vladimir F. Krapivin, Victor P. Savinykh

   Pages 191-234

6. High-latitude environment and global ecodynamics

   • Kirill Ya. Kondratyev, Costas A. Varotsos, Vladimir F. Krapivin, Victor P. Savinykh

   Pages 235-379

7. Biogeochemical cycles of pollutants in the environment

   • Kirill Ya. Kondratyev, Costas A. Varotsos, Vladimir F. Krapivin, Victor P. Savinykh

   Pages 381-480

8. Modelling the global changes of the environment

   • Kirill Ya. Kondratyev, Costas A. Varotsos, Vladimir F. Krapivin, Victor P. Savinykh

   Pages 481-522

9. Global climate change and geoinformation monitoring

   • Kirill Ya. Kondratyev, Costas A. Varotsos, Vladimir F. Krapivin, Victor P. Savinykh

   Pages 523-565

10. Problems and functions of the environmental monitoring systems

    • Kirill Ya. Kondratyev, Costas A. Varotsos, Vladimir F. Krapivin, Victor P. Savinykh

    Pages 567-631

11. Back Matter

    Pages 633-687

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During recent decades the stirring up of the processes of globalization practically in all spheres of present-day civilization activities has aggravated and brought forth numerous problems resulting from the nature-society (N-S) interaction. It has become apparent that to solve these problems it is necessary to develop new concepts and approaches to the interpretation of global environmental changes that would enable one to select the first-priority directions in studies and to reliably assess the state of the nature-society system (NSS). One of these priorities is to predict global climate change. The growing interest in the problem of global climate change, determined by its practical importance and by available contra­ dictory estimates of the anthropogenic contribution to climate change, necessitates a systematization of knowledge of and data on the observed climate change and causes of this change. Despite an enormous amount of projects and programmes of studies of past and present climatic trends, the problem of reliable prediction of future climate change remains far from being solved. Emissions to the atmosphere of greenhouse gases (GHGs), mainly carbon dioxide, is considered as one of the main causes of an expected climate warming resulting in sufficiently negative consequences for humankind. Therefore, an attempt has been made in this book to construct a formalized technology to assess the levelof the greenhouse effectdue to anthropogenic sources of carbon dioxide as well as the effects of other gas components.

• Aerosol
• Cloud
• Global warming
• Greenhouse effect
• Scale
• Taiga
• atmosphere
• climate change
• cloudiness
• ecosystem
• environmental change
• spheric
• vegetation

• Counsellor of the Russian Academy of Sciences Scientific Research Centre for Ecological Safety Nansen Foundation for Environment and Remote Sensing, St Petersburg, Russia

  Kirill Ya. Kondratyev

• Department of Applied Physics Laboratory of Upper Air, University of Athens Faculty of Physics, Athens, Greece

  Costas A. Varotsos

• Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

  Vladimir F. Krapivin

• Moscow University of Geodesy and Cartography, Moscow, Russia

  Victor P. Savinykh

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