Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes
Impact on Climate and Air Quality
Authors: Mölders, Nicole
Free Preview- 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
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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.
- Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-10
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Physical and Chemical Principles
Pages 11-37
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Impact of Land-Cover and Land-Cover Changes
Pages 39-115
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Future Challenges
Pages 117-174
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Conclusions
Pages 175-182
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes
- Book Subtitle
- Impact on Climate and Air Quality
- Authors
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- Nicole Mölders
- Series Title
- Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library
- Series Volume
- 44
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-007-1527-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-1527-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-1526-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-3695-5
- Series ISSN
- 1383-8601
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 190
- Topics
