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Routledge Handbook of Biosecurity and Invasive Species
Kezia Barker, Robert A. Francis, Kezia Barker, Robert A. Francis
- 352 pages
- English
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Routledge Handbook of Biosecurity and Invasive Species
Kezia Barker, Robert A. Francis, Kezia Barker, Robert A. Francis
About This Book
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 ā including forests, islands, marine and coastal and agricultural land ā 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction: spatial tensions and divides in grappling with āinvasive lifeā
- Part 1 Knowledges
- Part 2 Terrains
- Part 3 Practices
- Index