One Health, Ecology, and the Politics of Emerging Infectious Diseases

Livestock at the Crossroads

Mariel Aguilar-Støen, Jostein Jakobsen, Rebecca Leigh Rutt

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040674406
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Index: Social Sciences

This book explores the critical intersection of contemporary livestock production and some of today's most urgent challenges: the spread of emerging infectious diseases, the sustainability of food systems, and the contested promises of One Health.

It provides insights that cut across disciplines and geographies, from both the social and the natural sciences, reflecting the interdisciplinary aspirations of One Health. Yet, in foregrounding especially cutting edge contributions from ecology and the social sciences, this book addresses the persistent knowledge gap from these fields, which have frequently been neglected in favor of the veterinary sciences. By including contributions from across these fields, the book broadens and critically deepen the conversation around One Health.

The book is intended for a wide interdisciplinary audience of scholars, students, and practitioners concerned with livestock production, public health, and the future of food systems.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 Global capital and big livestock
• 2 Industrial pig production and health in the South: An analysis of the social resistance to China’s mega pig farms project in Argentina
• 3 Logistical supply chains as capitalist planning: The case of the Norwegian broiler industry and avian influenza
• 4 Cheap meat, infectious disease, and the externalization of incalculable costs and risks
• 5 Structural One Health?: A critical geography perspective on emerging infectious diseases and livestock
• 6 Framing the pandemic era: Different understandings of pathogenic landscapes in Norway
• 7 In Search of Healthy Cattle: A History of Veterinary Advice in Denmark
• 8 Care dependencies in times of disease: How avian influenza reshapes welfare in organic chicken production
• 9 Virulence in the Anthropocene: How the evolutionary drivers of disease are changed by human ecological impacts
• 10 Ecological Drivers for the Global Expansion of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza and African Swine Fever
• 11 The rise and fall of One Health policy: A power analysis
• 12 Governing poultry and pork production amid emerging infectious diseases: Lessons from plant agriculture and aquaculture
• Index