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15.2. Impacts of environmental change (From King 2000).
Environmental Global Environmental Concerns
Regional Environmental Concerns
issue
Farmland Forest Water/fish Human Farmland Forest Water/fish
Human
Climate Warming Inundation Change in Weather
Natural Wetter wet Shifts in size Changes in rain
Increased
of arable shape of changes impact hazards; seasons; and location of patterns; change
disease in
lands; drier temperate the hydrologic property loss;
drier soils in temperate and in temporal developing
soils in and tropical cycle
heating and dry season tropical forests and spatial
countries
summer forests
cooling costs
distribution
El Nin ˜o Increased Change in Increased winter
Flooding and
erosion water
rains; loss of fish other natural
distribution in Pacific
hazards
Ozone UV UV damage
Cancer UV damage UV damage to
Cancer in
depletion damage to many
to many many species
Southern
to many species of
species of of plants and
Hemisphere
species of plants and
plants and animals
plants and animals animals
animals
Land Deforestation Greenhouse Reduction of Indigenous Temporary
Net loss, Decreased Loss of
gases groundwater tribes increase
in particularly groundwater Indian
produced; recharge; endangered; cropland in tropical recharge;
habitat in
less CO 2
siltation of biodiversity
forests; increased rainforest;
recycled; streams
lost biodiversity runoff rates loss of
loss of
loss beneficial
biodiversity species