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The authors open with a general survey of contemporary global ecodynamics, including its basic components. They then discuss the greenhouse effect problems in the context of global carbon cycle dynamics, moving on to a detailed consideration of land ecosystem changes which considers a general global cycle model. The next chapters comprise a further generalisation of air-sea exchange models and their use in the context of the global carbon cycle, providing an analysis of high-latitude environmental dynamics in the context of global scale processes, and discuss basic aspects of global environmental changes modelling and relevant monitoring systems. The authors close with society systems with particular emphasis on the problems of sustainable development.

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Author:   Kirill Y. Kondratyev ,  Vladimir F. Krapivin ,  V. P. Savinykh ,  Costas A. Varotsos
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2004 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 4.40cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   2.730kg
ISBN:  

9783540204763

ISBN 10:   3540204768
Pages:   687
Publication Date:   01 July 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Global ecodynamics.- 1.1 Trends in civilization development.- 1.2 Global changes: real and possible changes in the future.- 1.3 Anthropogenic processes and their modelling.- 1.4 Ecological safety.- 1.5 Biocomplexity.- 2 Greenhouse effect problems.- 2.1 Interactivity of global climate problems and the carbon cycle.- 2.2 Global climate and the KP.- 2.3 Sources and sinks for carbon dioxide in the biosphere.- 2.4 Anthropogenic sources of carbon.- 2.5 Resources of the biosphere and the greenhouse effect.- 2.6 The greenhouse effect and global carbon cycle.- 2.7 Schemes of the gl6obal carbon cycle.- 3 Land ecosystems and global ecodynamics.- 3.1 Global dynamics of land ecosystems.- 3.2 Forest ecosystems and the greenhouse effect.- 3.3 Primary production and carbon dioxide.- 3.4 The atmosphere-land carbon exchange.- 3.5 Problems of biocoenology in connection with the greenhouse effect.- 3.6 A systems approach in biocoenology.- 3.7 Models in biocenology.- 3.8 Modelling the forest ecosystems.- 3.9 Modelling the energy fluxes in the atmosphere-plant-soil (APS).- 3.10 Modelling the coniferous forest productivity.- 3.11 Succession in the tundra-taiga system.- 3.12 Global model of the carbon cycle.- 4 Global environmental change and the World Ocean.- 4.1 The present-day world ocean.- 4.2 Interactions between the atmosphere and the ocean.- 4.3 The zonal model of the global carbon cycle in the atmosphereocean system.- 4.4 Modelling of the carbon cycle in the World Ocean.- 4.5 Organic carbon and oceanic ecosystems.- 5 High-latitude environment and global ecodynamics.- 5.1 Arctic Basin pollution problems.- 5.2 High-latitude environmental science.- 5.3 Arctic atmosphere composition.- 5.4 Atmospheric ozone.- 5.5 Polar aerosols.- 5.6 Cloudiness dynamics.- 5.7 Modelling the processes of propagation of pollutants at high latitudes.- 6 Biogeochemical cycles of pollutants in the environment.- 6.1 Special features of global biogeochemical cycles.- 6.2 Physical processes of propagation of chemicals in the atmosphere and their modelling.- 6.3 Modelling the atmospheric processes of pollutant propagation.- 6.4 Simulation system to model the physical processes of the transport of pollutants in the atmosphere.- 6.5 Natural-anthropogenic sulphur cycle.- 6.6 Phosphorus cycle.- 6.7 Nitrogen cycle.- 6.8 Biospheric budget of oxygen and ozone.- 6.9 Relationship between the global cycles of water and carbon dioxide.- 6.10 Biogeochemical cycle of methane.- 7 Modelling the global changes of the environment.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 The global model of the NSS.- 7.3 The role of vegetation in climate change.- 7.4 The role of the World Ocean in climate change.- 7.5 Development of the global model.- 7.6 The extraordinary event of the Antarctic Ozone hole in 2002.- 8 Global climate change and geoinformation monitoring.- 8.1 Reality, hypotheses, and fictions.- 8.2 Radiative forcing stipulated by aerosols.- 8.3 Global warming energetics, and geopolitics.- 8.4 Geoinformation monitoring conception.- 8.5 Global simulation experiments.- 9 Problems and functions of the environmental monitoring systems.- 9.1 Systems of environmental monitoring.- 9.2 The search and identification of extreme ecological and technogenic situations.- 9.3 Efficiency of the detection monitoring systems.- 9.4 Making statistical decisions in the systems of environmental monitoring.- 9.5 Managing natural resources.- 9.6 Assessing the environmental parameters.- 9.7 Monitoring hydrophysical and hydrochemical processes.- 9.8 Remote monitoring of the soil-plant formations.- 633.- 681.

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