Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Sivanpillai, Ramesh

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

• 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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780128205808
• Artikelnr.: 68415206