Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
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| ISBN13: | 9780128205099 |
| ISBN10: | 0128205091 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 568 pages |
| Size: | 235x191 mm |
| Weight: | 450 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 100 illustrations (100 in full color) |
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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
1. Introduction 2. Algal Blooms 3. Grasshopper Infestations and the Risks They Pose to Western North America Range and Crop Lands, North of Mexico 4. Senegalese grasshopper: A major pest of the Sahel 5. Locusts: An Introduction 6. Australian Plague Locust - Risk and Response 7. The Central American Locust: risk and prevention 8. Animal Hazards-Their Nature and Distribution 9. Loss of Biodiversity 10. Sacred Groves of Kerala 11. Multidrug Resistance: A Threat to Antibiotic Era 12. Chronic Environmental Diseases: Burdens, Causes, and Response 13. Coral Bleaching 14. Deforestation 15. Deforestation in Nepal: Status, Causes, Consequences and Responses 16. Deforestation in Southeast Asia 17. Mangroves as Coastal Rainforests: Imminent Threats, Hazards and Changing Status of Ecosystem Services 18. Land Degradation 19. Desertification 20. Rangeland degradation 21. The Aral Sea disaster: revisiting the past to plan a better future 22. Ecological Impacts of Climate Change 23. Understanding the Risks of Ionizing Radiation Exposure: A case of Dichotomy between Science and Policy 24. Meteor Impact Hazard