这本多学科的书讨论了北极海洋和陆地野生动物、生态系统和人类在这些时代面临的多种挑战。本文探讨了气候变化、环境污染和全球北部地区旅游业增加所造成的主要健康威胁。本文回顾了北极野生动物和驯养动物中最常见的传染病,并深入讨论了它们对北极周围生态系统以及北极人生活的影响。此外,这本书还回顾了北极的狩猎、放牧和食物保护策略,并介绍了偏远土著社区的兽医学。
Arctic One Health: Challenges for Northern Animals and People
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.
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