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Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes [electronic resource] : Impact on Climate and Air Quality / by Nicole Mölders.

By: Mölders, Nicole [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library: 44Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012Description: X, 190 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789400715271.Subject(s): Geography | Meteorology | Physical geography | Environmental protection | Earth Sciences | Meteorology/Climatology | Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution | Physical GeographyOnline resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
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.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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.
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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.

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