Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

Ramesh Sivanpillai, John F. Shroder

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2023
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9780128205808
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Biological Sciences

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

• Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Harmful algal blooms
• Chapter 3 Grasshopper infestations and the risks they pose to western North America range and crop lands, North of Mexico
• Chapter 4 Senegalese grasshopper—a major pest of the Sahel
• Chapter 5 Locusts: An introduction
• Chapter 6 The Australian plague locust—risk and response
• Chapter 7 The Central American locust: risk and prevention
• Chapter 8 Animal hazards—their nature and distribution
• Chapter 9 Loss of biodiversity: concerns and threats∗
• Chapter 10 Threats to the sacred groves of Kerala
• Chapter 11 Multidrug resistance: a threat to antibiotic era
• Chapter 12 Chronic environmental diseases: burdens, causes, and response
• Chapter 13 Bleaching of the world's coral reefs
• Chapter 14 Deforestation
• Chapter 15 Deforestation in Nepal: status, causes, consequences, and responses
• Chapter 16 Deforestation in Southeast Asia
• Chapter 17 Mangroves as coastal rainforests: imminent threats, hazards, and changing status of ecosystem services
• Chapter 18 Land degradation and environmental change
• Chapter 19 Desertification
• Chapter 20 Land degradation in rangeland ecosystems
• Chapter 21 The Aral Sea disaster: revisiting the past to plan a better future
• Chapter 22 Ecological impacts of climate change
• Chapter 23 Understanding the risks of ionizing radiation exposure: a case of dichotomy between science and policy
• Chapter 24 Meteor impact hazard
• Index