Air Pollution Impacts on Crops and Forests: A Global Assessment

Klappentext Air pollution is a problem affecting every part of our planet however, its global effects are poorly understood. This book provides the first truly global assessment of the scale of impacts of air pollution on crops and forests. The core of the book comprises assessments of the problem by experts from 12 different countries on every continent -- describing the evidence of air pollution effects on crop yields and forest vitality with regard to environmental policies. These analyses are placed in the context of a global assessment of the scale of current and future air pollution levels, as well as in the socio-economic context of local production systems. Inhaltsverzeichnis Air Pollution Impacts on Crops and Forests - Air Pollution Impacts on Vegetation - in Industrialised Countries - Air Pollution Impacts on Vegetation in Developing Countries

Product details

• Authors: Lisa (Univ of York Emberson, Lisa Ashmore Emberson
• Assisted by: Mike Ashmore (Editor), Mike (Univ Of York Ashmore (Editor), Marisa Domingos (Editor), Lisa Emberson (Editor), Lisa (Univ of York Emberson (Editor), Frank Murray (Editor), Frank (Murdoch Univ Murray (Editor)
• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.2003
• EAN: 9781860942921
• ISBN: 978-1-86094-292-1
• No. of pages: 388
• Series: Air Pollution Reviews; Air Pollution Reviews S.; Air Pollution Reviews
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works