1st Edition
Biosecurity The Socio-Politics of Invasive Species and Infectious Diseases
Part 1: Framing Biosecurity
1. Introduction: Interrogating Bio-insecurities
Kezia Barker, Sarah Taylor and Andrew Dobson
2. A World in Peril? The Case for Containment
Daniel Simberloff
3. Power over Life: Biosecurity as Biopolitics
Bruce Braun
Part 2: Implementing Biosecurity
4. Governing Biosecurity
Andrew Donaldson
5. Legal Frameworks for Biosecurity
Opi Outhwaite
6. Biosecurity: Whose Knowledge Counts?
Gareth Enticott and Katy Wilkinson
7. Biosecurity Management Practices: Determining and Delivering a Response
John Mumford
Part 3: Biosecurity and Geopolitics
8. A Neoliberal Biosecurity? The WTO, Free Trade and the Governance of Plant Health
Clive Potter
9. Viral Geopolitics: Biosecurity and Global Health Governance
Alan Ingram
10. Biosecurity and Bio-terror: Reflections on a Decade
Brian Rappert and Filippa Lentzos
Part 4: Transgressing Biosecurity
11. Biosecurity and Ecology: Beyond the Nativism Debate
Juliet Fall
12. Introducing Aliens, Re-introducing Natives: A Conflict of Interest for Biosecurity?
Henry Buller
13. The Insecurity of Biosecurity: Re-making Emerging Infectious Diseases
Stephen Hinchliffe
14. Conclusion: Biosecurity, the Future and the Impact of Climate Change
Sarah Taylor, Andrew Dobson, and Kezia Barker
Biography
Andrew Dobson is Professor of Politics at Keele University, UK.
Kezia Barker is Lecturer in Science and Environmental Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
Sarah L. Taylor is Lecturer in Ecology and Programme Director of Biology at Keele University, UK.
"This mixture of science, law, social sciences, politics, asks some very difficult questions about what we need to do, why and how. The emphasis throughout is on managing risk but complex demonstrate just how confusing this whole area is…" – David Walton, BES Bulletin
