Global Livestock Health Policy: Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategies for Effective Action

by Robert F. Kahrs

Global Livestock Health Policy is designed to provide an understanding of the complexities of national and subnational animal and public health policies and how those policies impact domestic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813802040
• ISBN13: 9780813802046
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A fastidiously scholarly, and seminally educational resource

Knowledgeably written by Robert F. Kahrs (a practicing veterinarian, teacher, and field researcher of livestock diseases and vaccines), Global Livestock Health Policy: Challenges, Opportunities, And Strategies For Effective Action is a solidly presented, fastidiously scholarly, and seminally educational resource which delves into diverse solutions of global animal health problems and food safety issues that directly affect international trade. Informatively written in technical detail meant for advanced students and active practitioners, the individual chapters deftly address everything from international livestock health standards; to advances in the diagnosis and control of a wide variety of livestock ailments; to offering hard looks at the perils and challenges of the future, and so much more. Global Livestock Health Policy is a superbly detailed and confidently recommended treatment a complex scientific and practical matter for American agriculture and contemporary agribusiness issues.