Filling the Ark: Animal Welfare in Disasters

by Leslie Irvine

Book Overview

With a new Preface by the author When disasters strike, people are not the only victims. Hurricane Katrina raised public attention about how disasters affect dogs, cats, and other animals considered members of the human family. In this short but powerful book, now available in paperback, noted sociologist Leslie Irvine goes beyond Katrina to examine how oil spills, fires, and other calamities affect various animal populations--on factory farms, in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592138349
• ISBN13: 9781592138340
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.2"