Long 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.

Table of Contents:

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