Description
Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Second Edition provides an integrated look at major impacts to the Earth's biosphere caused by diseases, algal blooms, insects, animals, species extinction, deforestation, land degradation, and comet and asteroid strikes, with important implications for humans.This second edition from Elsevier's Hazards and Disasters Series incorporates perspectives from the natural and social sciences to offer in-depth coverage of threats from microscopic organisms to celestial objects and their potential impacts. Contributions from expert biological, health, ecological, environmental, wildlife, physical, and health scientists, readers will gain valuable insights on damages, causality, economic impacts, preparedness, and mitigation.- Provides inter- and multi-disciplinary research accessible to both specialists and non-specialists- Includes newly added chapters on emerging hazards and risks to earth's ecosystems (land conversion and habitat loss) and human health (spread of diseases)- Contains full-color tables, maps, diagrams, illustrations, and photographs of hazardous processes
Table of Contents
1. Introduction2. Algal Blooms3. Grasshopper Infestations and the Risks They Pose to Western North America Range and Crop Lands, North of Mexico4. Senegalese grasshopper: A major pest of the Sahel5. Locusts: An Introduction6. Australian Plague Locust – Risk and Response7. The Central American Locust: risk and prevention8. Animal Hazards—Their Nature and Distribution9. Loss of Biodiversity10. Sacred Groves of Kerala11. Multidrug Resistance: A Threat to Antibiotic Era12. Chronic Environmental Diseases: Burdens, Causes, and Response13. Coral Bleaching14. Deforestation15. Deforestation in Nepal: Status, Causes, Consequences and Responses16. Deforestation in Southeast Asia17. Mangroves as Coastal Rainforests: Imminent Threats, Hazards and Changing Status of Ecosystem Services18. Land Degradation19. Desertification20. Rangeland degradation21. The Aral Sea disaster: revisiting the past to plan a better future22. Ecological Impacts of Climate Change23. Understanding the Risks of Ionizing Radiation Exposure: A case of Dichotomy between Science and Policy24. Meteor Impact Hazard
