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.
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.
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 agric
ulture, 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.
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1 Introduction
2 Algal blooms Suzanne Mcgowan
3 Grasshopper Infestations Scott Schell
4 Locust swarms Jeffrey Lockwood
4.1 The Australian plague locust Chris Adriaansen
4.2 Desert locust Keith Cressman
4.3 Other locusts Ramesh Sivanpillai
5 Decline of bees and other pollinators Norman Carreck
6 Bark beetle infestation Kevin Hyde
7 Release of natural enemies James Cuda
8 Animals as hazards Rachel M. Cavin
9 Biodiversity Robert M. May
10 Environmental disease Kirsten M.M. Beyer
11 Land degradation Paolo D'Odorico
11.1 Desertification Sarah Harris
11.2 Grassland Degradation Abbey F. Wick
11.3 Rangeland Ecosystems Jay P. Angerer
12 Deforestation Richard Houghton
12.1 Deforestation SE Asia Edgar C. Turner
12.2 Nepal Ram P. Chaudhary
12.3 Deforestation in Latin America Timothy Boekhout van Solinge
13 Ecological impacts of climate change George Malanson
