Changing Climates, Earth Systems and Society

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dodson, John. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: International Year of Planet Earth
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Meteorology.; Physical geography.; Climatic changes.; Environment.; Climate Change.; Meteorology/Climatology.; Physical Geography.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8716-4

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction.Setting the Scene: How Do We Get to a Fitting Future?- 2.Impacts of Climate Change on Terrestrial Ecosystems and Adaptation Measures for Natural Resource Management
• 3.Fire in the Earth System
• 4.Vanishing Polar Ice Sheets
• 5.Climate and Peatlands
• 6.Climate and Lacustrine Ecosystems
• 7.Rivers
• 8.Climate Change and Desertification
• 9.Climate Change, Societal Transitions and Changing Infectious Disease Burdens
• 10.Dont We All Want Good Weather and Cheap Food?- 11.Building Capacity to Cope with Climate Change in the Least Developed Countries
• 12.Climate Change Mitigations Policy: An Overview of Opportunities and Challenges.