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Taylor and Francis Ltd Climate Change and Animal Health 1st Edition 2022 Hardbound by Stephen, Craig
DIRECTLY APPLIES TO LIFE ON LAND SDG and CLIMATE CHANGE SDG. International organizations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), World Health Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization and World Organization for Animal Health have all reminded us that health impacts of climate change will become some of societies' greatest challenges. How we respond or adapt to climate change will have profound implications for people, animals, biodiversity, economies and ecosystems today as well as in the future.The book provides, in one easy reference, all of the information Animal Health practitioners need from defining the climate change concept, providing science-based evidence of climate change degradation of animal (ecosystem) health and successful mitigation and reversal strategies. Despite being arguably the most important challenges of the 21st century, engagement, and leadership from the animal health sector on climate change remains hard to find. This book attempts to support animal health professionals by providing information, knowledge, and experiences they can use to remedy this situation. There is no other book that covers anything like the proposed subject matter to this level of completeness and detail. The publishing of a text of this nature could help erode the power of the climate denialism lobby, shifting the debate and allowing mitigation efforts to gain higher priority. The tone of the book has an understated sense of urgency, leaning slightly toward presenting as a 'Manual for the apocalypse'. This has potential to be a benchmark publication.The text not only defines climate change but takes a proactive approach with intervention and corrective action examples: each chapter ends with suggestions on teachable and actionable ideas that could be used to mobilize concepts and information provided into education or advocacy. In this way, the book not only brings key ideas, principles and information to understand the implications for climate change for animal health, but will help translate the book's offerings into education and intervention. Teachers and researchers could use this one-of-a-kind book to frame a course or seminar series heightening student career engagement and stewardship of a more sustainable and healthier planet. 1. An Introduction to Current Climate Projections and Their Use in Climate Impacts Research 2. Overview of climate change and animal health 3. Climate change action: An overview 4. The Study and Classification of Climate Associated Disease in Animals 5. Climate change and the determinants of animal health 6. Finding a path through complexity; embedding the science of climate change in the study of animal infectious diseases 7. Zoonoses 8. Interactions between climate change and contaminants 9. Climate change related hazards and disasters: An unrelenting threat to animal and ecosystem health 10. An introduction to the economics of climate change and animal health 11. The international response to animal health and climate change 12. Preparing for the unanticipated 13. Climate change and animal health - the role of surveillance systems 14. Climate change leadership: team building, change agents, planning, strategy 15. Hope for Health in the Anthropocene 16. Education to Protect Animal Health in a Changing Climate 17. Protecting Animal Health in our Changing Climate: Key Messages