Routledge Handbook of Biosecurity and Invasive Species Contributor(s): Barker, Kezia (Editor), Francis, Robert A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0815354894 ISBN-13: 9780815354895 Publisher: Routledge
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: May 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Ecology - Nature | Animals - Wildlife - Nature | Ecology |
Dewey: 333.952 |
LCCN: 2020049807 |
Physical Information: 352 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
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