Full Title of Book: Exotic Pests and Diseases: Biology and Economics for BiosecurityAuthor(s) / Editor(s): Daniel A. Sumner.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell.
Year Published: 2003.
Edition: 1st.
DOI: 10.1002/9780470290125.
ISBN: Print 9780813819662, Online 9780470290125.
Size & Format: Hardcover, 265 pages. 1 PDF 1.9 Mb.
Brief Description & Contents: Exotic pests anddiseases have long been an important concern in agriculture. Theproblem is becoming increasingly urgent and complex becauseagricultural trade has been liberalized worldwide, and as aconsequence, the probability of spreading a disease or a pest throughnational borders has become a real threat, not only for theagricultural industry but also for human health and the naturalenvironment. This edited volume’s list of international contributorsreads like a Who’s Who of international agricultural research! Thisbook includes ten interdisciplinary case studies that focus on specificpests or diseases that represent a range of threats to U.S.agriculture, wild lands and the urban landscape, and possiblegovernment responses to these threats. Each chapter combines, in anoriginal fashion, biological foundations and implications for thepublic, giving powerful insights to a series of public policy issues ofnational and international relevance. In many instances, economicanalysis of alternative policies is included.
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