Overview
- Bioclimatology helps to understand the causes and impacts of natural hazards and the ways how to prevent them
- Examines the wide range of processes that drive atmosphere - biology and hydrology interactions from the micro- to regional scale
- Provides a useful framework for combating current climate variability and for adapting to ongoing climate change
- All contributing authors are from renowned scientific research institutions and universities
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Extreme Events, Risks and Climate Variability
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Drought, Floods and Ecosystem Responses
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Forest Bioclimatology, Natural Hazards and Modelling
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About this book
Anthropogenic influences to the earth's system, including the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, cryosphere and lithosphere, represent a serious challenge to our planet's ecosystems and natural environments. Bioclimatology, hydrology, bio-hydrology and eco-physiology are important scientific research areas with wide application to environmental protection, forestry, agriculture and water management, and protection against natural hazards including droughts, floods, windstorms, weather extremes, and wild fires. Bioclimatology helps to better understand the causes and impacts of natural hazards and how to prevent them. Improved knowledge of natural hazards is a vital prerequisite for the implementation of integrated resource management. It provides a useful framework for combating current climate variability and for adapting to ongoing climate change.
This book presents research on the interactions between meteorological, climatological, hydrological and biological processes in the atmospheric and terrestrial environment. It highlights a spectrum of topics associated with climate change and weather extremes and their impact on different economic sectors. The contributing authors come from renowned scientific research institutions and universities and specialise in issues of climate change, soil-plant-atmosphere interactions, hydrologic cycle, ecosystems, biosphere, and natural hazards.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bioclimatology and Natural Hazards
Editors: Katarína Střelcová, Csaba Mátyás, Axel Kleidon, Milan Lapin, František Matejka, Miroslav Blaženec, Jaroslav Škvarenina, … Ján Holécy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8876-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8875-9Published: 09 January 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8015-8Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8876-6Published: 30 November 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 298
Topics: Biogeosciences, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Climate Change, Environmental Management