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Author:   Dr Andrew Butterworth (Reader in Animal Science and Policy, University of Bristol, UK) ,  Rebecca Aldworth ,  Shelley M. Alexander ,  Regina Asmutis-Silvia (Whale and Dolphin Conservation, North America)
Publisher:   CABI Publishing
Imprint:   CABI Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.808kg
ISBN:  

9781786392466

ISBN 10:   1786392461
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   24 September 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1: Habitat Loss: Changing How Animals Think? 2: Whale Entanglement - a 21st-century Challenge in the Ocean 3: The Welfare Effects of PCBs in the Ocean 4: The Fence - the Welfare Implications of the Loss of the True Wild 5: Trophy Hunting and Animal Welfare 6: Carry on Carrion: the Fall of the Scavenger 7: Restoring What We Have Destroyed: Animal Welfare Aspects of Wildlife Conservation, Reintroduction and Rewilding Programmes 8: Intensification - the Pressures of Volume 9: Welfare Challenges: Feedlot Cattle 10: Public Opinion and the Retailer: Driving Forces in Animal Welfare? 11: Vertebrate/Invertebrate - When Do We Start Caring? 12: Animal Welfare at Slaughter - a Level Global Playing Field? 13: Precision Livestock Farming: the Future of Livestock Welfare Monitoring and Management? 14: The Paradoxical World of the Dog 15: Animal Experience of Domestication 16: Better to Have Lived and Lost - the Concept of a Life Worth Living 17: If Fishes Feel Pain, What Should We Do? 18: Anthropomorphism: Faulty Thinking or Useful Tool? 19: Speciesism 20: Longevity and Brevity - Is Death a Welfare Issue? 21: Promises and Challenges of Big Data Associated With Automated Dairy Cow Welfare Assessment 22: Animal Welfare: Information in a Changing World 23: Licensed to Harm 24: Animal Watching in Tourism 25: The Rise of the Inclusive Approach to Change in Animal Welfare 26: Animal Welfare Protection in the Face of Shrinking Public Resource

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Dr Andy Butterworth MRCVS is Reader in Animal Science and Policy in the Clinical Veterinary School, University of Bristol, UK. Andy teaches and carries out research in the areas of animal disease and production, animal welfare and legislation, behavioural biology, and animal welfare assessment in both farm and wild animals. He is a member of the European Food Standards Agency Scientific Panel on Animal health and Welfare, and chairs the EEER (Ethics, Economics, Education and Regulation) of the Farm Animal Welfare committee in the UK. He is editor in Chief of Elsevier's journal Veterinary and Animal Science, he lectures widely and publishes in books, and the academic and trade press, with over 200 publications to date.

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