Atmospheric Pollution and Environmental Change - Couverture rigide
Livre 5 sur 5: Key Issues in Environmental Change
Synopsis
This text addresses some of the major issues of concern relating to atmospheric pollution at a variety of scales, from the global to the local, and relates these issues to environmental impacts. In trying to integrate these two areas, it takes a long temporal perspective on both the atmosphere and the natural environments, using examples from a range of time dimensions, drawn from around the world. Using the range of scales as her basic framework, the author moves on from discussions of the various problems to examine the various policy approaches currently being adopted. An entire chapter is devoted specifically to the use of models, again across the range of scales. In seeking to be selective in the use of examples, the author focuses on those issues which have clear links to policy (that is, are in some way controllable) and where the pollutants are recognised as playing a part in both the climate system and at other scales and in other contacts as potentially damaging pollutants for natural ecosystems or human health.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Atmospheric Pollution and Environmental Change is an introduction to the major pollutants causing concern today, a description of their sources and how their emissions and concentrations have changed through time.
Approaching atmospheric change in the context of its effects on the natural environment, people and the global climate system, Atmospheric Pollution and Environmental Change examines:
· Atmospheric pollution at global, continental and local scales
· The development of policy at national and international levels
· The uses of computer models to help us understand and forecast the behaviour of pollutants and their impacts
· The success (or otherwise) of policies designed to reduce air pollution and the prospects for the future.
With extensive references to useful web sites and further reading, Atmospheric Pollution and Environmental Change will be of great benefit to senior undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Revue de presse
‘This book is an authoritative but accessible synthesis of environmental pollution as a major cause of environmental change ... ...a very useful book that addresses many of the issues covered by atmospheric pollution in a very accessible way... I found this book as complete and informative as possible and of utmost importance to interested readers, whatever their background or motivations.’
(International Journal of Environment and Pollution 2006-12-01)"I found this book an excellent introduction to the topic with a highly informative distillation of some key observed trends and future model predictions."
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