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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 366, Issue 1573, Pages 2023-2034Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0400
Keywords
animal disease; containment; uncertainty; policy; interdisciplinarity
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- UK research council [RES-229-25-0015]
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- Natural Environment Research Council
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Scottish Government
- Defra
- ESRC [ES/E010903/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/E010903/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Natural Environment Research Council [ceh010010] Funding Source: researchfish
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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.
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