Climate and Environmental Systems

by D . C . Money (Author), D . C . Money (Author)

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  Paperback
  1992

  $6.21

  This analysis features remote-sensing pictures to develop a student's ability to follow images of weather systems and interpret vegetation patterns. It also includes case studies on climate and environmental systems from around the world. There are two parts to the book. Part One covers topics from micro-habitats to major biome and includes the circulations of energy and matter which create climatic characteristics, soil profiles, and forms of vegetation. Part Two considers ways in which we disturb our environmental systems, and points to accurate means of predicting the effects of environmental change.

• Used

  Paperback
  1988

  $3.67

  David Money, the author of Climate, Soils and Vegetation , explains in this book the circulations of energy and matter which create climatic characteristics, recognizable soil profiles and forms of vegetation. He stresses their inter-relationships in various ecosystems, from micro-habitats to the major biomes, and examines the influences of life-forms, from bacterial roles in nutrient cycling to the complex reactions to human interference. In the final section there is a consideration of ways in which humans disturb their environmental systems with pointers as a means of predicting the effects. Topics covered include the advantages of satellite monitoring, the effects of deforestation, the increasing desertification, the problems of waste disposal, the results of air pollution, the climatic effects of urbanization, and the interdependence of the components of the global system. The author has made use of remote sensing pictures in this book and has provided climatic data to add depth to the description, and plant classifications to help field observations.