Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

✍ Scribed by Ramesh Sivanpillai, John F. Shroder

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 467
• Series: Hazards and disasters series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides an integrated look at major impacts to the Earth’s biosphere. Many of these are caused by diseases, algal blooms, insects, animals, species extinction, deforestation, land degradation, and comet and asteroid strikes that have important implications for humans.

This volume, from Elsevier’s Hazards and Disasters Series, provides an in-depth view of threats, ranging from microscopic organisms to celestial objects. Perspectives from both natural and social sciences provide an in-depth understanding of potential impacts.

• Contributions from expert ecologists, environmental, biological, and agricultural scientists, and public health specialists selected by a world-renowned editorial board
• Presents the latest research on damages, causality, economic impacts, fatality rates, and preparedness and mitigation
• Contains tables, maps, diagrams, illustrations, and photographs of hazardous processes

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter,Copyright,Dedication,Title and Description of the Cover Image,Contributors,Editorial Foreword,Acknowledgments,List of ReviewersEntitled to full textChapter 1 - Introduction to Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Pages 1-3, Ramesh Sivanpillai
Chapter 2 - Algal Blooms, Pages 5-43, Suzanne McGowan
Chapter 3 - Large-Scale Grasshopper Infestations on North American Rangeland and Crops, Pages 45-61, Scott P. Schell
Chapter 4 - Locusts: An Introduction, Pages 63-66, Jeffrey A. Lockwood
Chapter 4.1 - The Australian Plague Locust—Risk and Response, Pages 67-86, Chris Adriaansen, James D. Woodman, Edward Deveson, V. Alistair Drake
Chapter 4.2 - Desert Locust, Pages 87-105, Keith Cressman
Chapter 4.3 - Other Locusts, Pages 107-108, Ramesh Sivanpillai
Chapter 5 - Decline of Bees and Other Pollinators, Pages 109-118, Norman Carreck
Chapter 6 - Bark Beetle-Induced Forest Mortality in the North American Rocky Mountains, Pages 119-135, Kevin Hyde, Scott Peckham, Thomas Holmes, Brent Ewers
Chapter 7 - Novel Approaches for Reversible Field Releases of Candidate Weed Biological Control Agents: Putting the Genie Back into the Bottle, Pages 137-151, James P. Cuda
Chapter 8 - Animal Hazards—Their Nature and Distribution, Pages 153-180, Rachel M. Cavin, David R. Butler
Chapter 9 - Loss of Biodiversity: Concerns and Threats, Pages 181-189, Robert M. May
Chapter 10 - Chronic Environmental Diseases: Burdens, Causes, and Response, Pages 191-217, Kirsten M.M. Beyer
Chapter 11 - Land Degradation and Environmental Change, Pages 219-227, Paolo D'Odorico, Sujith Ravi
Chapter 11.1 - Desertification, Pages 229-256, John Oswald, Sarah Harris
Chapter 11.2 - Grassland Degradation, Pages 257-276, Abbey F. Wick, Benjamin A. Geaumont, Kevin K. Sedivec, John R. Hendrickson
Chapter 11.3 - Land Degradation in Rangeland Ecosystems, Pages 277-311, Jay P. Angerer, William E. Fox, June E. Wolfe
Chapter 12 - Deforestation, Pages 313-315, Richard A. Houghton
Chapter 12.1 - Deforestation in Southeast Asia, Pages 317-334, Edgar C. Turner, Jake L. Snaddon
Chapter 12.2 - Deforestation in Nepal: Causes, Consequences, and Responses, Pages 335-372, Ram P. Chaudhary, Yadav Uprety, Sagar Kumar Rimal
Chapter 12.3 - Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, Pages 373-395, Tim Boekhout van Solinge
Chapter 13 - Ecological Impacts of Climate Change, Pages 397-426, George P. Malanson, Kathryn J. Alftine
Chapter 14 - Meteor Impact Hazard, Pages 427-454, René A. De Hon
Index, Pages 455-466