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Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

  • 2nd Edition - June 22, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: John F. Shroder, Ramesh Sivanpillai
  • Language: English

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, i… Read more

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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Environmental scientists, ecologists and biological scientists, agricultural scientists, public health specialists, policymakers

Table of contents

1. Introduction
Ramesh Sivanpillai

2. Algal Blooms
Suzanne McGowan

3. Grasshopper Infestations and the Risks They Pose to Western North America Range and Crop Lands, North of Mexico
Scott Schell

4. Senegalese grasshopper: A major pest of the Sahel
Marion Le Gall

5. Locusts: An Introduction
Jeffrey Lockwood

6. Australian Plague Locust – Risk and Response
Ted Deveson, Chris Adriaansen

7. The Central American Locust: risk and prevention
Mario Antonio Poot-Pech

8. Animal Hazards—Their Nature and Distribution
Stephen Tsikalas

9. Loss of Biodiversity
Robert M. May

10. Sacred Groves of Kerala
Emma Jones, Claire Wooden, Sajith Variyar V.V., Ramesh Sivanpillai

11. Multidrug Resistance: A Threat to Antibiotic Era
Saif Hameed, Zeeshan Fatima, Dyuti Purkait, Suriya Rehman, Suchitra Rai

12. Chronic Environmental Diseases: Burdens, Causes, and Response
Sima Namin, Kirsten Beyer

13. Coral Bleaching
Robert van Woesik

14. Deforestation
Richard Houghton

15. Deforestation in Nepal: Status, Causes, Consequences and Responses
Ram Prasad Chaudhary, Hem Raj Acharya, Sagar K. Rimal, yadav uprety

16. Deforestation in Southeast Asia
Edgar Turner

17. Mangroves as Coastal Rainforests: Imminent Threats, Hazards and Changing Status of Ecosystem Services
Debajit Datta, Mrinmoyee Naskar, Syeda Tasneem, Shrabana Mazumder, Chandana Mitra

18. Land Degradation
Paolo D'Odorico

19. Desertification
John Oswald

20. Rangeland degradation
Jay Angerer, William Fox, June Wolfe, Doug Tolleson, Tony Owen

21. The Aral Sea disaster: revisiting the past to plan a better future
Elena Lioubimtseva

22. Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
George Malanson

23. Understanding the Risks of Ionizing Radiation Exposure: A case of Dichotomy between Science and Policy
Satish Nair

24. Meteor Impact Hazard
René DeHon

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 23, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

JS

John F. Shroder

Dr. John (Jack) F. Shroder received his bachelor’s degree in geology from Union College in 1961; his masters in geology from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst in 1963, and his Ph.D. in geology at the University of Utah in 1967. He has been actively pursuing research on landforms and natural resources in the high mountain environments of the Rocky Mountains, the Afghanistan Hindu Kush, and the Karakoram Himalaya of Pakistan for over a half century. His teaching specialties have been primarily geomorphology, but also physical and historical geology and several other courses at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where he was the founding professor of the Geology major. While there he was instrumental in founding the Center for Afghanistan Studies in 1972, and he was the lead geologist for the Bethsaida Archaeological Project in Israel in the 1990s. He taught geology as an NSF-, USAID, and Fulbright-sponsored professor at Kabul University in 1977-78, as well as a Fulbright award to Peshawar University in 1983-84. He has some 63 written or edited books to his credit and more than 200 professional papers, with emphases on landslides, glaciers, flooding, and mineral resources in Afghanistan. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received Distinguished Career awards from both the Mountain and the Geomorphology Specialty Groups of the Association of American Geographers. In the recent decade as an Emeritus Professor, he served as a Trustee of the Geological Society of America Foundation where he set up a research scholarship, the Shroder Mass Movement award for masters and doctoral candidates. For the past two decades, he has been the Editor-in-Chief for the Developments in Earth Surface Processes book series of Elsevier Publishing, as well as the 10-volumes of the Treatise on Geomorphology, and the Hazards, Risks, and Disasters book series, both in second editions. Recently, Dr. Shroder was ranked among the top 2 percent of researchers worldwide by the October study conducted by Stanford University.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Research Scholar, Center for Afghanistan Studies, Emeritus Professor of Geography and Geology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, USA

RS

Ramesh Sivanpillai

Ramesh Sivanpillai is a remote sensing scientist with the University of Wyoming where he teaches remote sensing and environmental sciences courses and directs the WyomingView program. Ramesh received his B. Sc in physics (PSG College of Arts & Science, India); M. Sc in environmental studies (Cochin University of Science & Technology, India); M. Phil in environmental sciences (Bharathiar University, India); M.S in environmental sciences (University of Wisconsin – Green Bay, USA), and PhD in forestry (Texas A&M University, USA). Since 1992, he has been working with remotely sensed data for applications in forestry, rangeland, agriculture, water bodies, disaster monitoring, and land cover/land use mapping. He has worked with national and international agencies, and academic institutions in India, United States of America, Mexico, Mali, Nicaragua, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Kenya, and Australia. Ramesh has published papers and book chapters in remote sensing applications in agriculture, forestry, environmental and habitat mapping, water and floods. He has served on the Board of Directors of AmericaView and is a member in the board of the ASPRS-RMR chapter. He serves as the associate editor for the Journal of Applied Remote Sensing and Frontiers of Earth Science. Ramesh has received the Project Manager training from the International Charter on Space Disasters and managed two of its activations in 2011 (flooding) and 2018 (wildfires). Ramesh was elected as the Fellow of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in 2021 for his contributions to remote sensing education and applied research.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Research Scientist, Wyoming GIS Center, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA

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