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This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the assessment and management of potentially dangerous infectious diseases, quarantined pests, invasive (alien) species, living modified organisms and biological weapons, from a multitude of perspectives.
Issues of biosecurity have gained increasing attention over recent years but have often only been addressed from narrow disciplines and with a lack of integration of theoretical and practical approaches. The Routledge Handbook of Biosecurity and Invasive Species brings together both the natural sciences and the social sciences for a fully rounded perspective on biosecurity, shedding light on current national and international management frameworks with a mind to assessing possible future scenarios. With chapters focussing on a variety of ecosystems - including forests, islands, marine and coastal and agricultural land - as well as from the industrial scale to individual gardens, this handbook reviews the global state of invasions and vulnerabilities across a wide range of themes and critically analyses key threats and threatening activities, such as trade, travel, land development and climate change.
Identifying invasive species and management techniques from a regional to international scale, this book will be a key reference text for a wide range of students and academics in ecology, agriculture, geography, human and animal health and interdisciplinary environmental and security studies.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
PART 1: Knowledges 1. Characterising Invasives: Stages of Invasion 2. What is an invasive alien species? Discord, dissent and denialism 3. Indigenous biosecurity: Past, Present and Future 4. Geographies of Veterinary Knowledge and Practice 5. Watching the grass grow: how landholders learn to live with an invasive plant in conditions of uncertainty 6. Understanding emerging infectious disease PART 2: Thresholds 7. Forest ecosystems 8. Island ecosystems 9. Marine and coastal ecosystems 10. Species invasions in freshwater ecosystems 11. 'New' recombinant ecologies and their implications - with insights from Britain 12. Industrial agricultural environments 13. Urbanisation and globally networked cities 14. Gardens: perspectives and practices in relation to plants in motion PART 3: Practices 15. National biosecurity regimes: plant and animal bio-politics in the UK and China 16. The Future of Biosecurity Surveillance 17. Risk assessment for Invasive Species 18. The Emergency Modality: From The Use Of Figures To The Mobilization Of Affects 19. Biosecurity in the life sciences 20. Rewilding and invasion
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This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the assessment and management of potentially dangerous infectious diseases, quarantined pests, invasive (alien) species, living modified organisms and biological weapons, from a multitude of perspectives.
