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Global Biosecurity - Threats and Responses (Paperback)
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Global Biosecurity - Threats and Responses (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Security Studies
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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 interest to
students, researchers and practitioners of security studies, public
health, public policy and IR in general. Peter Katona is Associate
Professor of Clinical Medicine at the David Geffen School of
Medicine at UCLA in Infectious Diseases. He is co-founder of
Biological Threat Mitigation, a bioterror consulting firm. John P.
Sullivan is a lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.
He is also a researcher focusing on terrorism, conflict disaster,
intelligence studies, and urban operations. He is co-founder of the
Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning (TEW) Group. Michael D.
Intriligator is Professor of Economics at the University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is also Professor of Political
Science, Professor of Public Policy in the School of Public Policy
and Social Research, and Co-Director of the Jacob Marschak
Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral
Sciences, all at UCLA.
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