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Reuben P. Keller (Ed.) - Invasive Species in a Globalized World: Ecological, Social, and Legal Perspectives on Policy - 9780226166186 - V9780226166186
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Invasive Species in a Globalized World: Ecological, Social, and Legal Perspectives on Policy

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Description for Invasive Species in a Globalized World: Ecological, Social, and Legal Perspectives on Policy Paperback. Recognizing the need to engage experts across the life, social, and legal sciences as well as the humanities, this title draws together a wide variety of ecologists, historians, economists, legal scholars, policy makers, and communications scholars, to facilitate a dialogue among these disciplines and understand the invasive species phenomenon. Editor(s): Keller, Reuben P.; Cadotte, Marc William; Sandiford, Glenn. Num Pages: 416 pages, 10 colour plates, 34 halftones, 15 line drawings, 13 tables. BIC Classification: RND; RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 592.
Over the past several decades, the field of invasion biology has rapidly expanded as global trade and the spread of human populations have increasingly carried animal and plant species across natural barriers that have kept them ecologically separated for millions of years. Because some of these nonnative species thrive in their new homes and harm environments, economies, and human health, the prevention and management of invasive species has become a major policy goal from local to international levels. Yet even though ecological research has led to public conversation and policy recommendations, those recommendations have frequently been ignored, and the efforts to counter invasive species have been largely unsuccessful. Recognizing the need to engage experts across the life, social, and legal sciences as well as the humanities, the editors of this volume have drawn together a wide variety of ecologists, historians, economists, legal scholars, policy makers, and communications scholars, to facilitate a dialogue among these disciplines and understand fully the invasive species phenomenon. Aided by case studies of well-known invasives such as the cane toad of Australia and the emerald ash borer, Asian carp, and sea lampreys that threaten US ecosystems, Invasive Species in a Globalized World offers strategies for developing and implementing anti-invasive policies designed to stop their introduction and spread, and to limit their effects.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226166186
SKU
V9780226166186
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About Reuben P. Keller (Ed.)
Reuben P. Keller is assistant professor of environmental science at Loyola University Chicago and coeditor of Bioeconomics of Invasive Species: Integrating Ecology, Economics, Policy and Management. He lives in Evanston, IL. Marc W. Cadotte is the TD Professor of Urban Forest Conservation and Biology at the University of Toronto Scarborough and coeditor of Conceptual Ecology and Invasion Biology: Reciprocal Approaches to Nature. He lives in Toronto, ON. Glenn Sandiford is an adjunct instructor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He lives in Glen Ellyn, IL.

Reviews for Invasive Species in a Globalized World: Ecological, Social, and Legal Perspectives on Policy
"Satisfying, exciting, and incorporating an astonishing variety of scholars and traditions, Invasive Species in a Globalized World provides an adequate background in invasion ecology and then steers the topic toward policy in an effective way. This is a crucial and currently lacking segment along the pathway from research to action." (Julie Lockwood, Rutgers University and coauthor of Avian Invasions: The Ecology and Evolution of Exotic Birds and Invasion Ecology)"

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