UID:
almafu_9959369422702883
Format:
1 online resource (427 p.)
ISBN:
0-226-16618-X
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0-226-16621-X
Content:
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.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Chapter one. Working across Disciplines to Understand and Manage Invasive Species --
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Introduction --
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Chapter two. The Ecological, Evolutionary, and Social Impact of Invasive Cane Toads in Australia --
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Chapter three. A Tale of Two Squirrels: A British Case Study of the Sociocultural Dimensions of Debates over Invasive Species --
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Chapter four. Fish Tales: Optimism and Other Bias in Rhetoric about Exotic Carps in America --
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Chapter five. "Sooper" Impact: Drawing the Attention of Kids to the Dangers of Invasive Species --
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Introduction --
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Chapter six. Patterns of Live Vertebrate Importation into the United States: Analysis of an Invasion Pathway --
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Chapter seven. All in the Family: Relatedness and the Success of Introduced Species --
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Chapter eight. Reducing Damaging Introductions from International Species Trade through Invasion Risk Assessment --
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Introduction --
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Chapter nine. Evaluating the Economic Costs and Benefits of Slowing the Spread of Emerald Ash Borer --
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Chapter ten. Climate Change Challenges in the Management of Invasive Sea Lamprey in Lake Superior --
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Chapter eleven. Ecological Separation without Hydraulic Separation: Engineering Solutions to Control Invasive Common Carp in Australian Rivers --
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Chapter twelve. Does Enemy Release Contribute to the Success of Invasive Species? A Review of the Enemy Release Hypothesis --
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Introduction --
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Chapter thirteen. From Global to Local: Integrating Policy Frameworks for the Prevention and Management of Invasive Species --
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Chapter fourteen. Developing Invasive Species Policy for a Major Free Trade Bloc: Challenges and Progress in the European Union --
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Chapter fifteen. There Ought to Be a Law! The Peculiar Absence of Broad Federal Harmful Nonindigenous Species Legislation --
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Chapter sixteen. Pathways toward a Policy of Preventing New Great Lakes Invasions --
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Chapter seventeen. Final Thoughts: Nature and Human Nature --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-16604-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-29714-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7208/9780226166216
