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Published: April 11, 2003

Challenges of a Changing Earth (2003)

This book presents a state-of-the-science overview of global change and its consequences for human societies. It highlights four areas of critical importance - food, water resources, air quality and the carbon cycle - from both science and policy perspectives, and points the way towards the new scientific approaches needed to study the Earth System in the future. The book also summarises recent advances in understanding in global change science: the climate system, global biogeochemistry, land-ocean interactions and changing land cover and the Earth System.
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Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10-13 July 2001

Series: Global Change - The IGBP Series (closed)

Steffen, W.; Jäger, J.; Carson, D.J.; Bradshaw, C. (Eds.)

2003, XVI, 216 p. 101 illus., 79 in color.

Hardcover, ISBN 978-3-540-43308-8

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Challenges of a Changing Earth

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