Global Change and Mountain Regions

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 23
• Mountain regions occupy about a quarter of the global terrestrial land surface and provide goods and services to more than half the humanity. Global e... Lees meer

High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 62
• Unique case studies from the Pyrenees providing a view of the main processes involved in the ecosystem shifts in the high mountains In-depth research ... Lees meer

Climate Change and Rocky Mountain Ecosystems

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 63
• This book is the result of a team of approximately 100 scientists and resource managers who worked together for two years to understand the effects of... Lees meer

Environmental Migration and Social Inequality

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 61
• This book presents contributions from leading international scholars on how environmental migration is both a cause and an outcome of social and econo... Lees meer

Global Change and Protected Areas

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 9
• High mountains can be considered as particularly appropriate environments to detect effects ofclimate change on natural biocoenoses in a global scale ... Lees meer

Measuring Precipitation from Space

V Levizzani, P Bauer, F Joseph Turk

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 28
• Measuring Precipitation from Space presents state-of-the-art rainfall estimation algorithms, validation strategies, precipitation modelling, and assim... Lees meer

The Hadley Circulation

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 21
• Climate dynamicists generally characterize the Hadley circulation in terms of some derived meteorological parameters, such as the mass stream function... Lees meer

The Climate of Japan

Takehiko Mikami

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 77
• This book clarifies the climatic variations in Japan from the historical period to the present based on documentary sources and meteorological data. J... Lees meer

A Biomass Future for the North American Great Plains

Norman J Rosenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 27
• WHY THIS BOOK? This book is an exploration of the possibility that a significant portion of the North American Great Plains (NAGP), now primarily in r... Lees meer

Society, Behaviour, and Climate Change Mitigation

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 8
• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) was jointly established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Env... Lees meer

Environmental Change and Food Security in China

Jenifer Huang McBeath, Jerry McBeath

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 35
• Abstract This chapter defines food security as the condition reached when a nation's population has access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to... Lees meer

Global Change and Mountain Regions

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 23
• Mountain regions occupy about a quarter of the global terrestrial land surface and provide goods and services to more than half the humanity. Global e... Lees meer

Hacia El Futuro

Maria Eugenia Ibarrarán, Roy Boyd

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 26
• The past 25 years have witnessed an increasing worldwide concern over the issue of climate change and the specter of immense environmental and economi... Lees meer

Translating the Paris Agreement Into Action in the Pacific

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 68
• This book provides an insight into how a country contributes to the GHG emissions reductions required to keep global warming within the limits set by ... Lees meer

Climate Variability and Extremes During the Past 100 Years

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 33
• Large progress has been made in the past few years towards quantifying and understanding climate variability during past centuries. At the same time, ... Lees meer

Boreal Forest and Climate Change

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 34
• The Forest Primary Production Research Group was born in the Department of S- viculture, University of Helsinki in the early 1970s. Intensive ?eld mea... Lees meer

Climate and Water

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 16
• Climate and Water: Transboundary Challenges in the Americas explores some of the ways that climate, hydrology, and water resource management converge ... Lees meer

Climate Change and Developing Countries

Nijavalli H Ravindranath, Jayant a Sathaye

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 11
• Among global environmental issues, climate change has received the largest attention of national and global policy makers, researchers, industry, mult... Lees meer

Climate Variability and Change in High Elevation Regions: Past, Present & Future

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 15
• Glaciers in the Andes are particularly important natural archives of present and past climatic and environmental changes, in significant part because ... Lees meer

Seasonal Forecasts, Climatic Change and Human Health

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 30
• Awareness that many key aspects of public health are strongly influenced by climate is growing dramatically, driven by new research and experience and... Lees meer

Environmental Change and Its Implications for Population Migration

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 20
• Environmental change in general, and climatic change in particular, are likely to impact significantly upon resources such as water and soils, transfo... Lees meer

Comparative Environmental Politics

Jerry McBeath, Jonathan Rosenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 25
• While we cannot hope to provide definitive answers to these questions, as political scientists we proceed from the assumption that much can be learned... Lees meer

Remote Sensing of Atmosphere and Ocean from Space: Models, Instruments and Techniques

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 13
• This book is a collection of the lectures, held at the International Summer School ISSAOS-2000 in L'Aquila (Italy), given by invited lecturers coming ... Lees meer

Forests of Southeast Europe Under a Changing Climate

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Global Change Research | nr. 65
• This book integrates the different prospective, scientific and practical experience of researchers as well as beneficiaries and stakeholders in the fi... Lees meer