Overview
- Can we understand, and try to balance, the needs and welfare of marine mammals with human use of the marine and coastal environment?
- Hunting marine mammals – profit, versus protection, versus profligacy – in the long term which will rule?
- The politics of marine mammals - why are marine mammals and their welfare becoming more visible and important to the public, and as a significant topic in the political arena?
Part of the book series: Animal Welfare (AWNS, volume 17)
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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 lectures widely and publishes in books, and the academic and trade press, with over 200 publications to date.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Marine Mammal Welfare
Book Subtitle: Human Induced Change in the Marine Environment and its Impacts on Marine Mammal Welfare
Editors: Andy Butterworth
Series Title: Animal Welfare
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46994-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-46993-5Published: 07 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83632-4Published: 14 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-46994-2Published: 19 June 2017
Series ISSN: 1572-7408
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 625
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 144 illustrations in colour
Topics: Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management, Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Nature Conservation, Ethics, Freshwater & Marine Ecology