Biosecurity

The Socio-Politics of Invasive Species and Infectious Diseases
Herausgeber: Dobson, Andrew; Taylor, Sarah L; Barker, Kezia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Biosecurity is the assessment and management of potentially dangerous infectious diseases, quarantined pests, invasive (alien) species, living modified organisms, and biological weapons. This introductory volume presents biosecurity as a multidisciplinary governance approach to a set of concerns that span protection against all of these threats.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780415534765
• ISBN-10: 0415534763
• Artikelnr.: 37042706

Autorenporträt

Andrew Dobson is Professor of Politics at Keele University, UK. Kezia Barker is Lecturer in Science and Environmental Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Sarah L. Taylor is Lecturer in Ecology and Programme Director of Biology at Keele University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Framing Biosecurity 1. Introduction: Interrogating Bio-insecurities
2. A World in Peril? The Case for Containment 3. Power over Life:
Biosecurity as Biopolitics Part 2: Implementing Biosecurity 4. Governing
Biosecurity 5. Legal Frameworks for Biosecurity 6. Biosecurity: Whose
Knowledge Counts? 7. Biosecurity Management Practices: Determining and
Delivering a Response Part 3: Biosecurity and Geopolitics 8. A Neoliberal
Biosecurity? The WTO, Free Trade and the Governance of Plant Health 9.
Viral Geopolitics: Biosecurity and Global Health Governance 10. Biosecurity
and Bio-terror: Reflections on a Decade Part 4: Transgressing Biosecurity
11. Biosecurity and Ecology: Beyond the Nativism Debate 12. Introducing
Aliens, Re-introducing Natives: A Conflict of Interest for Biosecurity? 13.
The Insecurity of Biosecurity: Re-making Emerging Infectious Diseases 14.
Conclusion: Biosecurity, the Future and the Impact of Climate Change