Wildlife Population Health

This textbook introduces the core competencies, tools, and perspectives to manage free-ranging animal population health and demonstrates their need and relevance to help wildlife cope with the ever-increasing pressures of the Anthropocene. It adapts and adopts key concepts of population health from public health and herd health to a wildlife health context.

Format: Hardback
Length: 275 pages
Publication date: 12 May 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This comprehensive textbook delves into the essential competencies, tools, and perspectives required to effectively manage the health of free-ranging animal populations, emphasizing their crucial role in helping wildlife adapt to the ever-increasing pressures of the Anthropocene. These pressures are manifest through global megatrends such as climate change, urbanization, and pollution, which pose significant challenges to the survival and well-being of wildlife.

By adapting and adopting key concepts of population health from public health and herd health, the textbook offers a novel approach to wildlife health management. It presents a modern way of understanding wildlife and fish epidemiology, health promotion, and disease control, with a particular focus on the social dimensions of wildlife health management.

This textbook is designed specifically for graduate students in veterinary medicine, wildlife researchers, and health managers. It serves as a valuable resource, providing comprehensive information and fostering the knowledge and skills necessary to protect and promote the health of free-ranging wildlife. Through its comprehensive coverage, it equips readers with the tools to address the complex health challenges faced by these populations and contribute to their conservation and sustainable management.

Weight: 833g
Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030905095
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022