Land-use and land-cover changes
Subtitle: impact on climate and air quality
By: Nicole Mölders
Series: Atmospheric and oceanographic sciences library -- v. 44; Atmospheric and oceanographic sciences library -- v. 44.
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9789400715264; 9789400715271
Subjects: Land cover; Land use; Environmental aspects
Other titles: Land use and land cover changes
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.