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Heiko . Ed(S): Balzter - Environmental Change in Siberia - 9789400732353 - V9789400732353
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Environmental Change in Siberia

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Description for Environmental Change in Siberia Paperback. This book details environmental changes in Siberia with a focus on the terrestrial biosphere. It also discusses information system approaches that are being developed to safeguard and make accessible spatial and temporal data for environmental studies. Editor(s): Balzter, Heiko. Series: Advances in Global Change Research. Num Pages: 315 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PSAF; RGB; RGM; RGW; RNPG; TQD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 462.
The Siberian environment is a unique region of the world that is both very strongly affected by global climate change and at the same time particularly vulnerable to its consequences. The news about the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean and the prospect of an ice-free shipping passage from Scandinavia to Alaska along the Russian north coast has sparked an international debate about natural resource exploitation, national boundaries and the impacts of the rapid changes on people, animals and plants. Over the last decades Siberia has also witnessed severe forest fires to an extent that is hard to ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
315
Condition
New
Series
Advances in Global Change Research
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400732353
SKU
V9789400732353
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Heiko . Ed(S): Balzter
Professor Balzter Heiko Balzter is Professor in Physical Geography and Head of the Geography Department at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. His research interests include biosphere / climate interactions and their responses to environmental change, with a focus on remote sensing and modelling approaches. From 1998 to 2006 he worked at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology ... Read more

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