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

• Main Author: Mölders, Nicole (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, 44
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Climate change.; Atmospheric sciences.; Physical geography.; Air pollution.; Earth Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.; Physical Geography.

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 qual...

Table of 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.