Climates and Societies - a Climatological Perspective A Contribution on Global Change and Related Problems Prepared by the Commission on Climatology of the International Geographical Union

About this book

Written by the world's leading climatologists and environmental scientists this book addresses many of the issues raised in the debate on global change, providing a new point of view on climate which is being integrated into the space and time organisation of societies.

Contents

Part 1 Introduction: human activities and environmental change - a climatologist's view, M. Yoshino. Part 2 Climate change and variability; on relationships between climate variability and change, and societies, A. Douguedroit; climate change in post glacial period in monsoon Asia, Jiacheng Zhang, et al; approaches to climatic variations during the historical era - a few examples, F. Serre-Bachet; some statistical aspects of observed regional and global climate change within the instrumental period, C.-D. Schonwiese; climate of the future - an evaluation of the current uncertainties, H. Le Treut; impacts of the climate variability on human activities, A. Douguedroit, et al. Part 3 Regional scale climates: society-climate systems in tropical Africa, O. Ojo; climate and life in the Caribbean basin, L.C. Nkemdirim; climate and societies in Southeast Asia, K.U. Sirinanda; climatic and pathological rhythms in a humid tropical area, the case of the Philippines, J. Perard, J.-P. Besancenot; possible impact on agriculture due to climatic change and variability in South America, F. Santibanez; climate and agriculture in China, Ai-Liang Jiang; the climates of the "Polar Regions", T. Niedzwiedz. Part 4 Local scale climates: introduction to the problems on local climate and man, J. Paszynski; interactions of man and climate in the urban world - the influence of urbanization on the local climate and the influence of urban climate on man, F. Wilmers; climates of tropical and subtropical cities, E. Jauregui; air pollution - a local problem becomes a global problem, H. Wanner; agricultural land use and local climate, M. Yoshino.

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