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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.

Environmental disasters. --- Natural disasters. --- Natural calamities --- Disasters --- Eco-disasters --- Ecological disasters --- Ecological disturbances --- Natural Disasters

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Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides an integrated look at major atmospheric disasters that have had and continue to have major implications for many of the world's people, such as floods and droughts. . This volume takes a geoscientific approach to the topic, while also covering current thinking about some directly relevant social scientific issues that can affect lives and property. Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters also contains new insights about how climate change affects hazardous processes. For the first time, information on the many diverse topi

Geology. Earth sciences --- Organization theory --- Natural disasters. --- Environmental disasters. --- Eco-disasters --- Ecological disasters --- Disasters --- Ecological disturbances --- Natural calamities

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In 2030, an old man who has survived the holocaustic destruction of civilization in the 1980's illuminates the events of the past by portraying the lives of his cousin, a journalist during the 1970 war measures act, and his stepfather, a German caught up in the madness of the Hitler era.

Environmental disasters --- Historical fiction. --- Nuclear accidents --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Accidents --- Historical novels --- History --- Fiction --- Eco-disasters --- Ecological disasters --- Disasters --- Ecological disturbances

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"This book explores the role of apocalypse in Old Norse mythology and literature, relating it to the threat of ecological catastrophe today"--

Environmental disasters. --- Apocalypse in literature. --- Disasters in literature. --- Mythology, Norse. --- Old Norse literature --- Mythology, Scandinavian --- Norse mythology --- Scandinavian mythology --- Eco-disasters --- Ecological disasters --- Disasters --- Ecological disturbances --- History and criticism.

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Disaster by Design: The Aral Sea, Lessons for Sustainability addresses the impacts of the Aral Sea disaster. The virtual disappearance of what was the world's fourth largest inland body of water was neither natural nor accidental. It was the result of deliberate policy decisions. The sea's disappearance is hardly the entire disaster. Instead, we find an accumulation of cascading effects, beginning with the decision to grow cotton, reached remotely in Moscow, that altered the farming practices surrounding the Aral Sea. Unsustainable choices resulted in soil salinization, water pollution and toxic blowing sands, impacting the entire bioregion and beyond. A remote island was used to test biological weapons. Uzbekistan, most notably Karakalpakstan, was the autonomous republic at the epicenter of the disaster. Sustainable prospects exist, including renewable energy, permaculture and strengthening the social fabric amidst poverty and ecological collapse. This volume of Research in Social Problems and Public Policy is essential reading for everyone concerned with averting environmental disaster and instead creating livable, sustainable communities. Disaster by Design is a clarion call and an insightful study of Central Asia today.

Environmental degradation --- Environmental disasters --- Eco-disasters --- Ecological disasters --- Degradation, Environmental --- Destruction, Environmental --- Deterioration, Environmental --- Environmental destruction --- Environmental deterioration --- Disasters --- Ecological disturbances --- Natural disasters --- Environmental quality --- Political Science --- Nature --- Social impact of environmental issues. --- Natural disasters. --- General. --- Public Policy --- Environmental Policy. --- Natural Disasters.