Routledge Handbook of Biosecurity and Invasive Species

<p>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. </p><p>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 <em>Routledge Handbook of Biosecurity and Invasive Species</em> 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.</p><p>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.</p>