Arctic One Health: Challenges for Northern Animals and People
Arctic One Health: Challenges for Northern Animals and People
English | 2022 | ISBN: 303087852X | 575 Pages | PDF | 16 MB
English | 2022 | ISBN: 303087852X | 575 Pages | PDF | 16 MB
This multidisciplinary book discusses the manifold challenges arctic marine and terrestrial wildlife, ecosystems and people face these times. Major health threats caused by the consequences of climate change, environmental pollution and increasing tourism in northern regions around the globe are explored. The most common infectious diseases in wild and domesticated arctic animals are reviewed and the impact they could have on circumpolar ecosystems as well as on the lives of arctic people are profoundly discussed. Moreover, the book reviews arctic hunting, herding and food conservation strategies and introduces veterinary medicine in remote indigenous communities.