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Air Pollution Impacts on Crops & Forests
Author(s):Lisa Emberson (Author, Editor), Frank Murray (Author, Editor), M. R. Ashmore (Author, Editor), Mike Ashmore (Author)
- Publisher: Imperial College Press
- Publication Date: October 1, 2003
- Language: English
- Print length: 300 pages
- ISBN-10: 186094292X
- ISBN-13: 9781860942921
Book Description
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.
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Upper level graduates, graduate students and researchers in environmental science, botany and ecology, as well as environmental managers, agronomists and forest managers.
