1.6 Conclusions
Obviously, the many challenges involving climate and stratospheric change, pollutant transport and social changes are related. A number of other significant dependencies also naturally exist between the various aspects of environmental change parameters and human activities in arctic and alpine areas. The scope here is not to give a complete review of all single processes but to outline the level of interaction between the main contemporary challenges in environmental change, on the basis of the studies presented in the book. Both with respect to the physical processes as well as dealing with their biological impacts and the anthropogenic forcing factors, the changes related to the climate change processes, long range transported pollutants and UV radiation, can not be treated alone or independently but need to be analysed as multiple pressures of the high latitude and high altitude, arctic and alpine environments.
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Ørbæk, J.B., Kallenborn, R., Tombre, I., Hegseth, E.N., Falk-Petersen, S., Hoel, A.H. (2007). Integrated aspects of environmental change: Climate change, UV radiation and long range transport of pollutants. In: Ørbæk, J.B., Kallenborn, R., Tombre, I., Hegseth, E.N., Falk-Petersen, S., Hoel, A.H. (eds) Arctic Alpine Ecosystems and People in a Changing Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48514-8_1
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