Managing biosecurity across borders /
Imprint: | Dordrecht : Springer, 2011. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 302 p.) : ill., maps. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8899965 |
Summary: | Managing biosecurity is everybody's business. The book's multi-site, multi-sectoral research contributes to an holistic, evidence-based strategy for managing plant biosecurity in complex contexts. The intent is to provide a starting point for all stakeholders in the biosecurity endeavor - policy personnel at all levels of governance, planners and regional developers, non-government organizations, community groups and individuals - to plan localized strategies that 'fit' national needs and constraints and the way people live their lives. In putting forward a 'strategy', we draw on many disciplines and cultural perspectives on a problem that is fundamentally a multidisciplinary and global issue. At the same time, the contributing researchers remain aware that such a strategy is always subject to local contextual factors and influences, indigenous and local knowledge and culture, and is regarded as a tool for planning, always subject to change. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 302 p.) : ill., maps. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789400714113 9789400714120 9400714122 |