Routledge Handbook of Biosecurity and Invasive Species

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 – 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.

Contents

PART 1: Knowledges
1. Characterising Invasives: Stages of Invasion / Palma E., Mabey A.L., Vesk P.A. & Catford J.A.
2. What is an invasive alien species? Discord, dissent and denialism / Juliet Fall
3. Indigenous biosecurity: Past, Present and Future / Simon Lambert & Melanie Shadbolt
4. Geographies of Veterinary Knowledge and Practice / Gareth Enticott
5. Watching the grass grow: how landholders learn to live with an invasive plant in conditions of uncertainty / Shaun McKiernan et al.
6. Understanding emerging infectious disease / Kim Stevens

PART 2: Thresholds
7. Forest ecosystems / Tommaso Sitzia et al.
8. Island ecosystems / Qinfeng Guo
9. Marine and coastal ecosystems / Elizabeth Cottier-Cook & Rebecca Giesler
10. Species invasions in freshwater ecosystems / Rob Francis
11. ‘New’ recombinant ecologies and their implications - with insights from Britain / Ian D. Rotherham
12. Industrial agricultural environments / Rob Wallace et al.
13. Urbanisation and globally networked cities / Meike Wolf
14. Gardens: perspectives and practices in relation to plants in motion / Katarina Saltzman, Carina Sjöholm & Tina Westerlund

PART 3: Practices
15. National biosecurity regimes: plant and animal bio-politics in the UK and China / Damien Maye & Ray Chan
16. The Future of Biosecurity Surveillance / Evangeline Corcoran & Grant Hamilton
17. Risk assessment for Invasive Species / J. D. Mumford & M A Burgman
18. The Emergency Modality: From The Use Of Figures To The Mobilization Of Affects / Francisco Tirado, Enrique Baleriola & Sebastián Moya
19. Biosecurity in the life sciences / Limor Samimian-Darash & Ori Lev
20. Rewilding and invasion / Timothy Hodgetts & Jamie Lorimer

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Biography

Kezia Barker is Lecturer in Geography in the Department of Geography at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

Robert A. Francis is a Reader in Ecology in the Department of Geography, King's College London, UK.