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Global Biosecurity: Threats and Responses (Contemporary Security Studies) by Peter Katona (editor), John P. Sullivan (editor), Michael D. Intriligator (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Global Biosecurity: Threats and Responses (Contemporary Security Studies) about?
This book explores a range of biohealth and biosecurity threats, places them in context, and offers responses and solutions from global and local, networked and pyramidal, as well as specialized and interdisciplinary perspectives. Specifically covering bioterrorism, emerging infectious diseases, pandemic disease preparedness and remediation, agroterroism, food safety, and environmental issues, the contributors demonstrate that to counter terrorism of any kind, a global, networked, and multidisciplinary approach is essential. To be successful in biosecurity, this book argues it is necessary to extend partnerships, cooperation, and co-ordination between public health, clinical medicine, private business, law enforcement and other agencies locally, nationally and internationally. Internationally, a clear understanding is needed of what has happened in past epidemics and what was accomplished in past bioprograms (in Britain, South Africa, Russia, for example). This book also assesses how, with the right technology and motivation, both a state and a non-state actor could initiate an extremely credible biothreat to security at both local and national levels. This book will be of much int
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- Author
- Peter Katona (editor), John P. Sullivan (editor), Michael D. Intriligator (editor)
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780415460538
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, History, Military
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