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Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
- 2nd Edition - June 22, 2023
- Editors: Ramesh Sivanpillai, John F. Shroder
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 5 0 9 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 5 8 0 - 8
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
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Request a sales quoteBiological 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
Environmental scientists, ecologists and biological scientists, agricultural scientists, public health specialists, policymakers
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- List of contributors
- Editorial foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Titles and descriptions of the cover images
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Part 1: Biological hazards, risks, and disasters
- 1.2. Part 2: Environmental hazards, risks, and disasters
- Part I. Biological hazards, risks, and disasters
- Chapter 2. Harmful algal blooms
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Historic examples of HAB incidents
- 2.3. HAB incidents in recent decades
- 2.4. Economic impacts of HABs
- 2.5. How do blooms form?
- 2.6. Vulnerability
- 2.7. Mitigation
- 2.8. Preparedness
- 2.9. Response
- 2.10. Recovery
- Chapter 3. Grasshopper infestations and the risks they pose to western North America range and crop lands, North of Mexico
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Taxonomy
- 3.3. Basic biology
- 3.4. Ecology
- 3.5. Grasshopper outbreak damage
- 3.6. Long-term damage
- 3.7. Past grasshopper outbreak management
- 3.8. Early pesticide control efforts
- 3.9. Recent outbreaks
- Chapter 4. Senegalese grasshopper—a major pest of the Sahel
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Distribution and pest status
- 4.3. Identification
- 4.4. Life history
- 4.5. Mortality factors and natural enemies
- 4.6. Migrations in the Sahel: adaptation and agricultural relevance
- 4.7. Population dynamics for a nonmodel locust
- 4.8. Management
- 4.9. Future directions
- Chapter 5. Locusts: An introduction
- 5.1. Biology and ecology of Acrididae
- 5.2. Locusts versus grasshoppers
- 5.3. Pest management challenges
- 5.4. Natural sciences as necessary—but not sufficient
- 5.5. The need for new approaches
- 5.6. Summary
- Chapter 6. The Australian plague locust—risk and response
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Ecology of the Australian plague locust
- 6.3. Population outbreaks
- 6.4. History of locust outbreaks and control in Australia
- 6.5. Economic and social impacts
- 6.6. The Australian plague locust commission and current approaches to locust management in Australia
- 6.7. The risks and hazards of locust control in Australia
- 6.8. Future considerations
- 6.9. Future climate risks
- 6.10. Conclusions
- Chapter 7. The Central American locust: risk and prevention
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Economic and social impacts
- 7.3. Historical locust outbreak
- 7.4. Locust polyphenism
- 7.5. Locust program and regional coordination
- 7.6. Distribution area of the CAL
- 7.7. Risk factors
- 7.8. Risk management through increase the resilience
- 7.9. Research in new technology
- 7.10. Conclusions
- Chapter 8. Animal hazards—their nature and distribution
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Animal attacks
- 8.3. Animal accidents
- 8.4. Diseases contracted from animals
- 8.5. Property damage and losses caused by animals
- 8.6. Summary
- Chapter 9. Loss of biodiversity: concerns and threats
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. How many species?
- 9.3. Extinction rates
- 9.4. Reasons for concern
- Chapter 10. Threats to the sacred groves of Kerala
- 10.1. Threats
- 10.2. Protecting the sacred groves
- Chapter 11. Multidrug resistance: a threat to antibiotic era
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. History of antibiotics
- 11.3. Emergence of multidrug resistance
- 11.4. Drivers of multidrug resistance
- 11.5. Impact of multidrug resistance
- 11.6. Strategies to combat MDR
- 11.7. Conclusion
- Part II. Environmental hazards, risks, and disasters
- Chapter 12. Chronic environmental diseases: burdens, causes, and response
- 12.1. What is a chronic environmental disease?
- 12.2. The global burden of chronic environmental diseases
- 12.3. Causes of chronic environmental diseases
- 12.4. Public health response
- 12.5. Conclusions
- Chapter 13. Bleaching of the world's coral reefs
- 13.1. Symbiosis: the secret of corals' evolutionary success
- 13.2. Thermal stress and coral bleaching
- 13.3. Differential tolerances of corals to thermal stress
- 13.4. Geographic patterns of coral bleaching
- 13.5. Repercussions of coral bleaching events
- 13.6. Effects on coral reproduction and recruitment
- 13.7. Coral recovery following bleaching
- 13.8. Future coral reefs
- 13.9. Concluding remarks
- Chapter 14. Deforestation
- 14.1. Definitions
- 14.2. Rates and extent of deforestation
- 14.3. Effects of deforestation
- Chapter 15. Deforestation in Nepal: status, causes, consequences, and responses
- 15.1. Introduction
- 15.2. Nepal
- 15.3. Vegetation and forest types in Nepal
- 15.4. Forest status and rate of deforestation in Nepal
- 15.5. Causes of deforestation in Nepal
- 15.6. Consequences of deforestation in Nepal
- 15.7. Responses to deforestation
- 15.8. Conclusions and recommendations
- Chapter 16. Deforestation in Southeast Asia
- 16.1. Long-term changes in land use in Southeast Asia
- 16.2. Impacts of logging on the environment
- 16.3. Impacts of forest fragmentation on the environment
- 16.4. Impacts of habitat conversion on the environment
- 16.5. Conservation options
- 16.6. Conclusion
- Chapter 17. Mangroves as coastal rainforests: imminent threats, hazards, and changing status of ecosystem services
- 17.1. Introduction
- 17.2. Global distributional pattern
- 17.3. Environmental services of mangrove ecosystems
- 17.4. Risks and hazards in the mangroves
- 17.5. Current status of vulnerability and responses: few case studies
- 17.6. Impacts of mangrove degradation on the global environment
- Chapter 18. Land degradation and environmental change
- 18.1. Introduction
- 18.2. Indicators of land degradation
- 18.3. The global significance
- 18.4. Drivers
- 18.5. Conclusions
- Chapter 19. Desertification
- 19.1. Historical roots, evolving definitions, and critiques of desertification
- 19.2. Drylands and their variability
- 19.3. Physical, climatic, and anthropogenic drivers of desertification and their impacts
- 19.4. Approaches to identifying desertification
- 19.5. Issues related to desertification analysis
- 19.6. Conclusions and the quest for sustainability in dryland environments
- Chapter 20. Land degradation in rangeland ecosystems
- 20.1. Introduction
- 20.2. Definition and extent of rangeland degradation
- 20.3. Causes of rangeland degradation
- 20.4. Indicators of rangeland degradation
- 20.5. Monitoring rangeland degradation
- 20.6. Restoration and the degradation spiral
- 20.7. Conclusions and future directions
- Chapter 21. The Aral Sea disaster: revisiting the past to plan a better future
- 21.1. Introduction
- 21.2. Lessons from the past
- 21.3. Human vulnerability of the Aral Sea region
- 21.4. Future outlook
- Chapter 22. Ecological impacts of climate change
- 22.1. Introduction
- 22.2. Observed effects of climate change
- 22.3. Ecosystem services
- 22.4. The past and the future
- Chapter 23. Understanding the risks of ionizing radiation exposure: a case of dichotomy between science and policy
- 23.1. Introduction
- 23.2. The morass of radiation dose terminology
- 23.3. From radiation dose to radiation risk
- 23.4. Assigning cancer risk to radiation doses
- 23.5. Tussle over the LNT model
- 23.6. The case of gonadal and fetal shielding in radiography
- 23.7. Concluding remarks
- Chapter 24. Meteor impact hazard
- 24.1. Introduction
- 24.2. Planetary evidence
- 24.3. Historical record
- 24.4. Geologic record
- 24.5. Surviving meteor craters
- 24.6. Origins and properties of asteroids, meteoroids, and comets
- 24.7. Hypervelocity impact
- 24.8. Ocean impact
- 24.9. Near Earth asteroids
- 24.10. Evaluation of impact hazard and mitigation
- Index
- No. of pages: 568
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published: June 22, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128205099
- eBook ISBN: 9780128205808
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