Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes: Impact on Climate and Air Quality

By Nicole Mölders

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400715269
• ISBN13: 9789400715264
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.4"