Description
Diseases at the Wildlife – Livestock Interface: Research and Perspectives in a Changing World presents a novel, comprehensive, integrative, and multidisciplinary approach to the understanding of the emergence of diseases at the wildlife-livestock-human interface. This ebook addresses the wildlife-livestock interface in a “One Health” context; it provides a historical foundation and new technical innovations from which the study of wildlife-livestock interactions can be advanced; it analyzes regional situations around the world, addressing the wide diversity of contexts and characteristics of the wildlife-livestock interfaces. Shared diseases among wildlife, livestock and humans, often transboundary, are relevant to public health and global economy, as being highlighted currently relative to the global COVID19 pandemic. Diseases at these interfaces also impact the conservation of biodiversity and must be considered when managing wildlife. While wildlife and domestic livestock have coexisted in dynamic systems for thousands of years, spillover disease risks are higher today than in the past due to global patterns of increasing close contact and interactions among wildlife, livestock and humans in the context of complex, diverse and numerous circumstances. Multidisciplinary studies of animal interfaces, especially those involving wildlife, therefore, must be brought to the forefront so that knowledge gaps can be realized and filled to inform managers and policy makers. 424 p.
- Joaquin Vicente, Editor. Researcher at the National Wildlife Research Institute IREC, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real (Spain).
- Kurt C. Vercauteren, Editor. PhD, Supervisory Research Wildlife Biologist. National Wildlife Research Centre, United States Department of Agriculture, Fort Collins, CO (USA).
- Christian Gortazar, Editor. Researcher at the National Wildlife Research Institute IREC, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real (Spain).
- Publication date (digital version): 2021-04.
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