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Concise, readable and accessible, this text gives non-specialist veterinary professionals an introduction to ethics. It helps readers to think about, and discuss, ethical dilemmas and viewpoints faced by practitioners in their daily practice.
Destination research today has become increasingly fragmented as studies become more specialized. This book provides a systematic examination and combines spatial and organizational structure across destinations from the national to the local scale to produce a comprehensive understanding of destinations and a complete integrative framework of them.
A new textbook showing beginners how to use the free programming language R for fundamental biostatistical analysis, graphical display, and experimental design. The book takes a simple step-by-step approach to give a good grounding in the use of R for undergraduate/beginning postgraduate biology students.
One Health has now expanded beyond discussion of emerging infectious diseases and zoonoses. Retaining its interdisciplinary focus, this new edition includes more non-infectious disease issues and climate change discussion alongside revised case studies and expanded methodology chapters to draw out implications for practice.
Riders can face a range of horse behavioural problems, which if left untreated could cause the horse-human relationship to break down. This book examines behavioural issues using academic research, offering practical solutions illustrated with photos and case studies. It covers over 30 major issues, including biting, kicking, shying and bolting.
This book focuses on the multiple and interconnected manifestations of violence that women/girls encounter in tourism consumption and production while seeking to open the debate on violence against sexual minorities (LGBT) and discussing men/boys as victims and perpetrators of GBV.
Written by one of the world's leading and most respected experts on butterfly ecology, behaviour and conservation, this book summarises in one place for the first time our knowledge of butterfly life history strategies, behaviour and systems. This book represents a major contribution to the field of butterfly biology and entomology in general.
The first of its kind, this book focuses exclusively on tourism development, planning and impacts in a wide number of Central and South America. It covers experiences, challenges, successful and unsuccessful stories, specific cases, and other tourism related issues of twelve countries in total.
This book is the first single author work to be published for more than thirty years that provides a broad, balanced review of our scientific knowledge of strawberries. This title covers aspects from taxonomy, ecology, morphology and genetics to environmental physiology, disease and pest control, fruit ripening, storage and processing.
Fully updated and revised, the fourth edition of this popular textbook provides a complete and comprehensive account of how to successfully breed horses. Beginning with a grounding in reproductive anatomy, it reviews endocrine control and selection for breeding mares and stallions, pregnancy, parturition and lactation.
Phytosanitary risk management is essential to the global economy. This book is about managing phytosanitary risks of trade and non-trade issues and the fundamentals of how to manage those risks in an effective and efficient manner. It covers risk management models, best practice, phytosanitary measures and current risk management issues.
This book provides a practical guide for the veterinary practitioner on how to record and analyse ECGs in horses. It includes the basics of electrocardiography, recording, analyzing and interpreting the ECG.
The importance of animal behavior and psychological well-being is increasingly being recognized in the veterinary profession. This book provides a practical approach to diagnosing, treating and managing different behaviour pathologies in dogs and cats, focusing on front line situations, common presentations and how to offer help to owners.
This book discusses the various basic monitoring techniques available for emergency patients. The book elaborates on and explains monitoring techniques that can be easily performed in basic ER clinics and primary care clinics.
This book is a guide to the identification of the indigenous forest trees of Uganda. It will be useful for those who wish to contribute towards the conservation of the forests or to plant indigenous trees. Information is provided on how to propagate and cultivate about 80 of the most valuable species.
Antimicrobial use is under debate, and it is becoming standard practice in the animal production industry to implement thorough biosecurity plans to prevent the spread of pathogenic micro-organisms. This book provides a wealth of practical information on the application of biosecurity measures in both farm and companion animal settings.
The environmental quality and popularity of a tourist destination is the outcome of sustained development. This book therefore examines the tourism business in terms of 'greening' the local economy, people and environment, establishing the green agenda and investigating its application to the tourism sector.
This book provides an introduction to medical metabolomics and systems biology, and demonstrates how they have been applied to studies in medicine and human health, including nutrition and pathogenic microorganisms. Focusing on diagnosis, pathology and aetiology of disease, it provides a reference in how to use metabolomics for medical research.
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