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TY - JOUR
T1 - Uncertainties in the governance of animal disease: an interdisciplinary framework for analysis
AU - Fish, Robert
AU - Austin, Zoe
AU - Christley, Robert
AU - Haygarth, Philip M
AU - Heathwaite, A Louise
AU - Heathwaite, Louise A
AU - Latham, Sophia
AU - Medd, William
AU - Mort, Maggie
AU - Oliver, David M
AU - Pickup, Roger
AU - Wastling, Jonathan M
AU - Wynne, Brian
PY - 2011/9/27
Y1 - 2011/9/27
N2 - Uncertainty is an inherent feature of strategies to contain animal disease. In this paper, an interdisciplinary framework for representing strategies of containment, and analysing how uncertainties are embedded and propagated through them, is developed and illustrated. Analysis centres on persistent, periodic and emerging disease threats, with a particular focus on cryptosporidiosis, foot and mouth disease and avian influenza. Uncertainty is shown to be produced at strategic, tactical and operational levels of containment, and across the different arenas of disease prevention, anticipation and alleviation. The paper argues for more critically reflexive assessments of uncertainty in containment policy and practice. An interdisciplinary approach has an important contribution to make, but is absent from current real-world containment policy.
AB - Uncertainty is an inherent feature of strategies to contain animal disease. In this paper, an interdisciplinary framework for representing strategies of containment, and analysing how uncertainties are embedded and propagated through them, is developed and illustrated. Analysis centres on persistent, periodic and emerging disease threats, with a particular focus on cryptosporidiosis, foot and mouth disease and avian influenza. Uncertainty is shown to be produced at strategic, tactical and operational levels of containment, and across the different arenas of disease prevention, anticipation and alleviation. The paper argues for more critically reflexive assessments of uncertainty in containment policy and practice. An interdisciplinary approach has an important contribution to make, but is absent from current real-world containment policy.
KW - Animals
KW - Birds
KW - Communicable Diseases, Emerging
KW - Cryptosporidiosis
KW - Decision Making
KW - Great Britain
KW - Influenza in Birds
KW - Interdisciplinary Communication
KW - Models, Biological
KW - Public Policy
KW - Uncertainty
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79958053962&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1098/rstb.2010.0400
DO - 10.1098/rstb.2010.0400
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 21624922
VL - 366
SP - 2023
EP - 2034
JO - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
JF - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
SN - 0962-8436
IS - 1573
ER -