| Description |
1 online resource (255 pages) : colour illustrations |
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International year of planet Earth |
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International year of planet Earth.
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| Contents |
Setting the scene: how do we get to a fitting future? / John Dodson -- Impacts of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems and adaptation measures for natural resource management / Patrick Gonzalez -- Fire in the earth system / S.P. Harrison, J.R. Marlon, and P.H. Bartlein -- Vanishing polar ice sheets / Nancy A.N. Bertler and Peter J. Barrett -- Climate and peatlands / Rixt de Jong [and others] -- Climate and lacustrine ecosystems / Isabelle Larocque-Tobler [and others] -- Rivers / Emmanuel Gandouin and Philippe Ponel -- Climate change and desertification with special reference to the cases in China / Xiaoping Yang -- Climate change, societal transitions and changing infectious disease burdens / Emily Fearnley, Philip Weinstein, and John Dodson -- Don't we all want good weather and cheap food? / Elisabeth Simelton -- Building capacity to cope with climate change in the least developed countries / Hannah Reid [and others] -- Climate change mitigation policy: an overview of opportunities / Timothy J. Foxon |
| Summary |
The book covers state-of-the-art considerations on how climate change has and will deliver impacts on major globalised biophysical and societal themes that will affect the way the world functions. Human activity has resulted in changes to atmospheric chemistry and land cover, and caused serious decline in biodiversity. Modifying biogeochemical cycles leads to complex feedbacks. The future climate will have impact on food security and agriculture, water supply and quality, storm and cyclone frequency, shoreline stability, biodiversity and the future of biological resources. Earth scientists mig |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Climatic changes
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Climatic changes -- Social aspects
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Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on.
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Human ecology.
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Global environmental change.
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Climate Change
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climate change.
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human ecology.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Pollution Control.
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Climatic changes -- Social aspects.
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Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on.
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Human ecology.
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Global environmental change.
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Environmental Studies.
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Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects.
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Sciences de la terre.
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Environnement.
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Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on
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Climatic changes
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Climatic changes -- Social aspects
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Global environmental change
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Human ecology
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Anthropogener Einfluss
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Humanökologie
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Klimaänderung
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Umweltveränderung
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dodson, J. R.
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| LC no. |
2010932611 |
| ISBN |
9789048187164 |
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9048187168 |
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