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Changing Climates, Earth Systems and Society
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 decl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2010. |
| Colección: | International Year of Planet Earth
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Setting the Scene: How Do We Get to a Fitting Future?
- Impacts of Climate Change on Terrestrial Ecosystems and Adaptation Measures for Natural Resource Management
- Fire in the Earth System
- Vanishing Polar Ice Sheets
- Climate and Peatlands
- Climate and Lacustrine Ecosystems
- Rivers
- Climate Change and Desertification with Special Reference to the Cases in China
- Climate Change, Societal Transitions and Changing Infectious Disease Burdens
- Don't We All Want Good Weather and Cheap Food?
- Building Capacity to Cope with Climate Change in the Least Developed Countries
- Climate Change Mitigation Policy: An Overview of Opportunities and Challenges.