Sivanpillai Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-12-396471-7
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 492 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Hazards and Disasters Series

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

Zielgruppe

<p>Environmental scientists, ecologists and biological scientists, agricultural scientists, public health specialists</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sivanpillai, Ramesh

Weitere Mitwirkende

Shroder, John F.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Infectious Hazards and Risks
2 Algal blooms
3 Grasshopper Infestations
4 Locust swarms
  4.1 The Australian plague locust
  4.2 Desert locust
5 Decline of bees and other pollinators
6 Bark beetle infestation
7 Release of natural enemies
8 Animals as hazards
9 Biodiversity
10 Environmental disease        
11 Land degradation
  11.1 Desertification
  11.2 Grassland Degradation
  11.3 Rangeland Ecosystems
12 Deforestation
  12.1 Deforestation SE Asia
  12.2 Nepal
  12.3 Deforestation in East Africa
  12.4 Deforestation in Latin America
13 Ecological impacts of climate change  
14 Comet and asteroid strikes

Über Autor(innen)

Shroder, John F.
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