Routledge Handbook of Biosecurity and Invasive Species

ISBN-13: 9780815354895 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 352 str.

Kezia Barker; Robert A. Francis

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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