Animal welfare in a changing world /
Animal welfare in a changing world /
edited by Andrew Butterworth.
- Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; Boston, MA : CAB International, [2018], c2018.
- 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Habitat loss: changing how animals think? -- Whale entanglement - a 21st century challenge in the ocean -- The Welfare effects of PCBs in the ocean -- The Fence - the welfare implications of the loss of the true wild -- Trophy hunting and animal welfare -- Carry on carrion: the fall of the scavenger -- Restoring what we have destroyed: animal welfare aspects of wildlife conservation, reintroduction and rewilding programmes -- Intensification = the pressures of volume -- Welfare challenges: feedlot cattle -- Public opinion and the retailer: driving forces in animal welfare? -- Vertebrate?Invertebrate - when do we start caring? -- Animal welfare at slaughter - a level global playing field? -- Precision livestock farming: the future of livestock welfare monitoring and management? -- The paradoxical world of the dog -- Animal experience of domestication -- Better to have lived and lost - the concept of a life worth living -- If fishes feel pain, what should we do? -- Anthropomorphism: faulty thinking or useful tool? -- Speciesism -- Longevity and brevity - is death a welfare issue? -- Promises and challenges of big data associated with automated dairy cow welfare assessment -- Animal welfare: information in a changing world -- Licensed to harm -- Animal watching in tourism -- The rise of the inclusive approach to change in animal welfare -- Animal welfare protection in the face of shrinking public resource -- Index.
"Contemporary and challenging, this thought-provoking book outlines a number of the key dilemmas in animal welfare today and tomorrow. The key issues range from the welfare of fur and fashion animals, to debates around intensive farming versus sustainability and climate change, to animals in tourism, rodeos, races and fiestas. The human-animal welfare impact is explored, including human impact on marine mammals, fish, wildlife, companion and farm animals, together with our impact on zoo and laboratory animals."--Amazon.com
9781786392459 (HB : alk. paper) 9781786392466 (PB : alk. paper)
2017059470
Animal welfare
HV4708 / An5 2018
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Habitat loss: changing how animals think? -- Whale entanglement - a 21st century challenge in the ocean -- The Welfare effects of PCBs in the ocean -- The Fence - the welfare implications of the loss of the true wild -- Trophy hunting and animal welfare -- Carry on carrion: the fall of the scavenger -- Restoring what we have destroyed: animal welfare aspects of wildlife conservation, reintroduction and rewilding programmes -- Intensification = the pressures of volume -- Welfare challenges: feedlot cattle -- Public opinion and the retailer: driving forces in animal welfare? -- Vertebrate?Invertebrate - when do we start caring? -- Animal welfare at slaughter - a level global playing field? -- Precision livestock farming: the future of livestock welfare monitoring and management? -- The paradoxical world of the dog -- Animal experience of domestication -- Better to have lived and lost - the concept of a life worth living -- If fishes feel pain, what should we do? -- Anthropomorphism: faulty thinking or useful tool? -- Speciesism -- Longevity and brevity - is death a welfare issue? -- Promises and challenges of big data associated with automated dairy cow welfare assessment -- Animal welfare: information in a changing world -- Licensed to harm -- Animal watching in tourism -- The rise of the inclusive approach to change in animal welfare -- Animal welfare protection in the face of shrinking public resource -- Index.
"Contemporary and challenging, this thought-provoking book outlines a number of the key dilemmas in animal welfare today and tomorrow. The key issues range from the welfare of fur and fashion animals, to debates around intensive farming versus sustainability and climate change, to animals in tourism, rodeos, races and fiestas. The human-animal welfare impact is explored, including human impact on marine mammals, fish, wildlife, companion and farm animals, together with our impact on zoo and laboratory animals."--Amazon.com
9781786392459 (HB : alk. paper) 9781786392466 (PB : alk. paper)
2017059470
Animal welfare
HV4708 / An5 2018