Mosquitopia : the place of pests in a healthy world / edited by Marcus Hall and Dan Tamïr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hall, Marcus, 1959- editor.

Tamïr, Dan, editor.

Series:

Routledge environmental humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes--Control--Environmental aspects.

Mosquitoes as carriers of disease.

Mosquitoes--Control.

Physical Description:

xxi, 289 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

Summary:

"This edited volume brings together natural scientists, social scientists and humanists to assess if (or how) we may begin to coexist harmoniously with the mosquito. The mosquito is humanity's deadliest animal, killing over a million people each year by transmitting malaria, yellow fever, Zika and several other diseases. Yet of the 3500 species of mosquito on earth, only a few dozen of them are really dangerous-so that the question arises as to whether humans and their mosquito foe can learn to live peacefully with one another. Chapters assess polarizing arguments for conserving and preserving mosquitoes, as well as for controlling and killing them, elaborating on possible consequences of both strategies. This book provides informed answers to the dual question: could we eliminate mosquitoes, and should we? Offering insights spanning the technical to the philosophical, this is the 'go to' book for exploring humanity's many relationships with the mosquito-which becomes a journey to finding better ways to inhabit the natural world. Mosquitopia will be of interest to anyone wanting to explore dependencies between human health and natural systems, while offering novel perspectives to health planners, medical experts, environmentalists and animal rights advocates"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Killing mosquitoes: Think before you swat

2. The mosquito: An introduction / Dan Tamir / Marcus Hall

3. Understanding multispecies mobilities: From mosquito eradication to coexistence / Frances M. Hawkes / Richard J. Hopkins

4. The long arc of mosquito control / Carsten Wergin / Uli Beisel

5. Domesticated Mosquitoes: Colonization and the growth of mosquito habitats in North America / James L.A. Webb Jr

6. Could we/should we eradicate mosquitoes?: The case of the yellow fever vector / Urmi Engineer Willoughby

7. Fighting nuisance on the northern fringe: Controlling mosquitoes in Britain between the World Wars / Nancy Leys Stepan

8. The mosquito and malaria: Would mosquito control alone eliminate the disease? / Peter Coates

9. Living with mosquitoes in disease-free contexts: Attitudes and perceptions of risk in English wetlands / Willem Takken

10. AweWonderExcitement / Mary Gearey / Tim G. Acott / Adriana Ford

11. Enacting politics with mosquitoes: Beyond eradication and control / Kerry Morrison / Helmut Lemke

12. Eradication against ambivalence / Jean Segata

13. The innocent mosquito?: The environmental ethics of mosquito eradication / Alex Nading

14. Mosquito control: Success, failure and expectations in the context of arbovirus expansion and emergence / Anna Wienhues

15. Designer mosquitoes?: Prospects and precautions of genome- edited insects for public health / Isabelle Dusfour / Sarah C. Chaney

16. The Mosquitome: A new frontier for sustainable vector control / Ramya M. Rajagopalan

17. Mosquito utopias and dystopias: A dispatch from the front lines / Frederic Simard.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Mosquitopia

ISBN:

9780367520052

0367520052

9780367520113

0367520117

OCLC:

1245956963

Publisher Number:

40030805597