Short 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.

Long 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.

Table of Contents:

PART 1: Knowledges  1. Characterising Invasives: Stages of Invasion  2. What is an invasive alien species? Discord, dissent and denialism  3. Indigenous biosecurity: Past, Present and Future  4. Geographies of Veterinary Knowledge and Practice  5. Watching the grass grow: how landholders learn to live with an invasive plant in conditions of uncertainty  6. Understanding emerging infectious disease  PART 2: Thresholds  7. Forest ecosystems  8. Island ecosystems  9. Marine and coastal ecosystems  10. Species invasions in freshwater ecosystems  11. ?New? recombinant ecologies and their implications - with insights from Britain  12. Industrial agricultural environments  13. Urbanisation and globally networked cities  14. Gardens: perspectives and practices in relation to plants in motion  PART 3: Practices  15. National biosecurity regimes: plant and animal bio-politics in the UK and China  16. The Future of Biosecurity Surveillance  17. Risk assessment for Invasive Species  18. The Emergency Modality: From The Use Of Figures To The Mobilization Of Affects  19. Biosecurity in the life sciences  20. Rewilding and invasion