Published August, 2010
By John Webster and Joyce D'Silva
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Explores the various issues surrounding the global growth in the production and consumption of meat and dairy animals and products, including cultural and health factors, and the implications of the likely intensification of farming for both small-scale producers and for the animals.

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Published August, 2010
By John Webster and Joyce D'Silva
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Explores the various issues surrounding the global growth in the production and consumption of meat and dairy animals and products, including cultural and health factors, and the implications of the likely intensification of farming for both small-scale producers and for the animals.

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Published August, 2010
By Richard Twine
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Places the question of human/animal relations at the heart of sustainability and climate change debates. This book focuses on ethics, examining critically the dominant paradigms of bioethics and power relations between human and non-human. It also considers animal biotechnology and political economy, examining commercialisation and regulation.

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Published August, 2010
By Susan Craddock, Jennifer Gunn and Tamara Giles-Vernick
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Major influenza pandemics pose a constant threat. This book explores several pandemics over the past century, from the infamous 1918 Spanish Influenza, the avian flu epidemic of 2003, and the novel H1N1 pandemic of 2009, to lesser-known outbreaks such as the 1889-90 influenza pandemic and the Hong Kong Flu of 1968.

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Published June, 2010
By Sarah Dry and Melissa Leach
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Focuses on how different policy-makers, scientists, and local populations construct alternative narratives - accounts of the causes and appropriate responses to outbreaks - about epidemics at the global, national and local level. This book also reveals the often unintended consequences of policy responses to epidemics.

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Published June, 2010
By Sarah Dry and Melissa Leach
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Focuses on how different policy-makers, scientists, and local populations construct alternative narratives-accounts of the causes and appropriate responses to outbreaks- about epidemics at the global, national and local level. This book also reveals the often unintended consequences of the policy responses to epidemics.

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Published April, 2010
By Roberta Sonnino and Kevin Morgan
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School food suddenly finds itself at the forefront of contemporary debates about healthy eating, social inclusion, ecological sustainability and local economic development. This book offers a contribution to the school food debate by highlighting the potential of creative public procurement - the power of purchase.

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Published April, 2010
By Ian Scoones
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Substantial resources have been spent on tackling avian influenza and building a global capacity for a pandemic response. This book explores how virus genetics, ecology and epidemiology intersect with economic, political and policy processes in places ranging from Bangkok to Washington, to Jakarta, Cairo, Rome and London.

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Published April, 2010
By Ian Scoones
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Substantial resources have been spent on tackling avian influenza and building a global capacity for a pandemic response. This book explores how virus genetics, ecology and epidemiology intersect with economic, political and policy processes in places ranging from Bangkok to Washington, to Jakarta, Cairo, Rome and London.

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Published December, 2009
By Pay Drechsel, Christopher A. Scott, Liqa Raschid-Sally, Mark Redwood, Akica Bahri and Akissa Bahri
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In most developing countries wastewater treatment systems are hardly functioning or have a very low coverage, resulting in large scale water pollution. This book approaches this serious problem from a practical and realistic perspective, addressing the issues of health risk assessment and reduction in developing country settings.

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