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Weather. --- Meteorology --- Acid rain --- Aerology --- Acid precipitation (Meteorology) --- Rain and rainfall --- Earth sciences --- Atmosphere --- Atmospheric science
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Acid rain is still with us. Although it is a problem that people have worked diligently to solve, there are still many problem areas throughout the world. In reality the focus of acid rain research has shifted, and this book adds new vision to the topic. It contains papers, selected from Acid Rain 2005, the 7th International Conference on Acid Deposition, that take a broad perspective of the issues, emphasizing a number of themes: - the emission, concentration and deposition of pollutants - nitrogen and trace elements in ecosystems and their effects on forests, water and soil - studies of material damage and recovery - critical loads The book is aimed at scientists and researchers who are working in the area of acid rain and its effects, and on nutrient cycling. This latest research will be of value to those concerned with the mitigation of acid rain effects. Reprinted from Water, Air, & Soil Pollution: Focus, Volume 7, Issues 1-3, 2007.
Acid rain. --- Acid precipitation (Meteorology) --- Acidic precipitation (Meteorology) --- Acid deposition --- Air --- Precipitation (Meteorology) --- Acid-forming emissions --- Rain and rainfall --- Pollution
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Acid Rain Science and Politics in Japan is a pioneering work in environmental and Asian history as well as an in-depth analysis of the influence of science on domestic and international environmental politics. Kenneth Wilkening's study also illuminates the global struggle to create sustainable societies.The Meiji Restoration of 1868 ended Japan's era of isolation- created self-sufficiency and sustainability. The opening of the country to Western ideas and technology not only brought pollution problems associated with industrialization (including acid rain) but also scientific techniques for understanding and combating them. Wilkening identifies three pollution-related "sustainability crises" in modern Japanese history: copper mining in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which spurred Japan's first acid rain research and policy initiatives; horrendous post-World War II domestic industrial pollution, which resulted in a "hidden" acid rain problem; and the present-day global problem of transboundary pollution, in which Japan is a victim of imported acid rain. He traces the country's scientific and policy responses to these crises through six distinct periods related to acid rain problems and argues that Japan's leadership role in East Asian acid rain science and policy today can be explained in large part by the "historical scientific momentum" generated by efforts to confront the issue since 1868, reinforced by Japan's cultural affinity with rain (its "culture of rain"). Wilkening provides an overview of nature, culture, and the acid rain problem in Japan to complement the general set of concepts he develops to analyze the interface of science and politics in environmental policymaking. He concludes with a discussion of lessons from Japan's experience that can be applied to the creation of sustainable societies worldwide.
Acid rain --- Environmental management --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Meteorology & Climatology --- Government policy --- History. --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Acid precipitation (Meteorology) --- Rain and rainfall --- ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy
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Acid deposition is a large scale, long term environmental problem with more significant ecological impacts than previously anticipated. Today we recognize that resolution involves a perplexing set of policy issues, since the sources of pollution are often hundreds of miles away, and can only be accomplished through international cooperation, often at a global scale. Acid in the Environment: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects is a collection of essays that blends the research findings and the policy analyses of individuals from different academic disciplines with the positions advanced by representatives of NGOs. In Part I: Ecological Impacts of Acid Deposition, scientists emphasize the web of changes in complex ecosystems caused by sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Analyses of domestic and international policies to control the emission of pollutants that cause acid rain are discussed in Part II: Acid Emissions Energy and Policy. The authors of Part III: Sulfur Dioxide and the Market provide the reader with an economic perspective on the control of sulfur dioxide emissions. The volume concludes with Part IV: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects, which reveals the acid deposition problem has served as a testing ground for applying scientific insights to public policy, forging international agreements and creating economically effective mechanisms to solve environmental problems. The rapid progress in reducing sulfur dioxide emissions in both North America and Europe is promising, and provides a good model for regions in eastern Asia where these emissions are growing fast. Acid in the Environment: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects presents a broad approach to the study of acid deposition, exposing readers with a scientific background to significant policy issues and those with a policy orientation to important ecological impacts. The book raises important questions that will serve as a springboard for discussion between diverse groups of teachers and students, concerned citizens and legislators, and scientists and policy makers.
Acid rain. --- Acid rain --- Sulfur dioxide mitigation. --- Sulfur dioxide mitigation --- Law and legislation. --- Economic aspects. --- Atmospheric sulfur dioxide mitigation --- Mitigation of sulfur dioxide --- Sulphur dioxide mitigation --- Pollution prevention --- Acid precipitation (Meteorology) --- Rain and rainfall --- Environmental law --- Environmental protection. --- Environmental pollution. --- Environmental management. --- Environmental economics. --- Environmental Science and Engineering. --- Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution. --- Industrial Pollution Prevention. --- Environmental Management. --- Terrestrial Pollution. --- Environmental Economics. --- Economics --- Environmental quality --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Chemical pollution --- Chemicals --- Contamination of environment --- Environmental pollution --- Pollution --- Contamination (Technology) --- Asbestos abatement --- Bioremediation --- Environmental engineering --- Factory and trade waste --- Hazardous waste site remediation --- Hazardous wastes --- In situ remediation --- Lead abatement --- Pollutants --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Applied ecology --- Environmental policy --- Environmental aspects --- Economic aspects
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This book contains the results and conclusions of extensive research on the causes and effects of acidification of forests/forest soils and heathland in the Netherlands. In 1985 the Dutch Priority Programme on Acidification was started in order to give a more concrete form to the increasing interest of policy-makers in the effects of air pollution on ecosystems in particular.In the last three years, the research has focused on obtaining a more accurate estimate of the emission of ammonia on the deposition of SOx, NOy and NHx, and also on quantifying effects on forest and heathland ecosyst
Acid deposition --- Pollution --- Chemical pollution --- Chemicals --- Contamination of environment --- Environmental pollution --- Contamination (Technology) --- Asbestos abatement --- Bioremediation --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental quality --- Factory and trade waste --- Hazardous waste site remediation --- Hazardous wastes --- In situ remediation --- Lead abatement --- Pollutants --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Acidic deposition --- Deposition, Acid --- Environmental aspects --- REPORTS --- ACIDIFICATION --- AMMONIA --- SULFUR DIOXIDE --- AIR POLLUTION --- NITROGEN OXIDES --- FORESTS --- ACID DEPOSITION --- FOREST SOILS --- ACID RAIN --- FOREST DECLINE --- AIR POLLUTANTS --- NETHERLANDS --- EMISSION --- DEPOSITION --- EFFECTS --- HEALTH HAZARDS --- MATHEMATICAL MODELS --- ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
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Globally, fire regimes are being altered by changing climatic conditions and land use changes. This has the potential to drive species extinctions and cause ecosystem state changes, with a range of consequences for ecosystem services. Accurate prediction of the risk of forest fires over short timescales (weeks or months) is required for land managers to target suppression resources in order to protect people, property, and infrastructure, as well as fire-sensitive ecosystems. Over longer timescales, prediction of changes in forest fire regimes is required to model the effect of wildfires on the terrestrial carbon cycle and subsequent feedbacks into the climate system.This was the motivation to publish this book, which is focused on quantifying and modelling the risk factors of forest fires. More specifically, the chapters in this book address four topics: (i) the use of fire danger metrics and other approaches to understand variation in wildfire activity; (ii) understanding changes in the flammability of live fuel; (iii) modeling dead fuel moisture content; and (iv) estimations of emission factors.The book will be of broad relevance to scientists and managers working with fire in different forest ecosystems globally.
fire danger rating --- fire management --- fire regime --- fire size --- fire weather --- Portugal --- critical LFMC threshold --- forest/grassland fire --- radiative transfer model --- remote sensing --- southwest China --- acid rain --- aerosol --- biomass burning --- forest fire --- PM2.5 --- direct estimation --- meteorological factor regression --- moisture content --- time lag --- forest fire driving factors --- forest fire occurrence --- random forest --- forest fire management --- China --- Cupressus sempervirens --- fire risk --- fuels --- fuel moisture content --- mass loss calorimeter --- Seiridium cardinale --- vulnerability to wildfires --- disease --- alien pathogen --- allochthonous species --- introduced fungus --- drying tests --- humidity diffusion coefficients --- wildfire --- prescribed burning --- modeling --- drought --- flammability --- fuel moisture --- leaf water potential --- plant traits --- climate change --- MNI --- fire season --- fire behavior --- crown fire --- fire modeling --- senescence --- foliar moisture content --- canopy bulk density --- fire danger --- fire weather patterns --- RCP --- FWI system --- SSR --- occurrence of forest fire --- machine learning --- variable importance --- prediction accuracy --- epicormic resprouter --- eucalyptus --- fire severity --- flammability feedbacks --- temperate forest --- n/a
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