Biosecurity the socio-politics of invasive species and infectious diseases
Biosecurity is the assessment and management of potentially dangerous infectious diseases, quarantined pests, invasive (alien) species, living modified organisms, and biological weapons. It is a holistic concept of direct relevance to the sustainability of agriculture, food safety, and the protectio...
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Routledge
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : interrogating bio-insecurities / Kezia Barker, Sarah Taylor and Andrew Dobson
- A world in peril? : the case for containment / Daniel Simberloff
- Power over life : biosecurity as biopolitics / Bruce Braun
- Governing biosecurity / Andrew Donaldson
- Legal frameworks for biosecurity / Opi Outhwaite
- Biosecurity : whose knowledge counts? / Gareth Enticott and Katy Wilkinson
- Biosecurity management practices : determining and delivering a response / John Mumford
- A neoliberal biosecurity? : the WTO, free trade and the governance of plant health / Clive Potter
- Viral geopolitics : biosecurity and global health governance / Alan Ingram
- Biosecurity and bio-terror : reflections on a decade / Brian Rappert and Filippa Lentzos
- Biosecurity and ecology : beyond the nativism debate / Juliet Fall
- Introducing aliens, re-introducing natives : a conflict of interest for biosecurity? / Henry Buller
- The insecurity of biosecurity : re-making emerging infectious diseases / Stephen Hinchliffe
- Conclusion : biosecurity, the future and the impact of climate change / Sarah Taylor, Andrew Dobson, and Kezia Barker.