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Routledge handbook of animal welfare / edited by Andrew Knight, Clive Phillips, and Paula Sparks.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge environment and sustainability handbooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animal welfare.
- Humane education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvi, 507 pages)
- Other Title:
- Handbook of animal welfare
- Animal welfare
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- Andrew Knight (MANZCVS, DipECAWBM (AWSEL), DipACAW, PhD, FRCVS, PFHEA) is a Professor of Animal Welfare and Ethics, and Founding Director of the Centre for Animal Welfare, at the University of Winchester, UK. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Environment and Science at Griffith University, Australia. Prior to working in academia, he practised veterinary medicine for nearly a decade. Clive JC Phillips (BSc, MA, PhD) was Australia's first Professor of Animal Welfare, at the University of Queensland, Australia, and foundation director of the Centre for Animal Welfare and Ethics. He previously lectured at the University of Cambridge and the University of Wales, UK. His books include Principles of Cattle Production (third edition, 2018), The Animal Trade (2015), and The Welfare of Animals: The Silent Majority (2008). He has authored about four hundred scientific journal articles. He chairs the Queensland and Western Australia Governments' Animal Welfare Boards, is editor-in-chief of the journal Animals, edits an Animal Welfare Series, and is Director of the Humane Society International. Paula Sparks (LLB (Hons), BL) is a Visiting Professor at the University of Winchester, UK, where she teaches animal law. She practised as a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers in London before leaving the bar in 2018 to pursue a full time role with the UK Centre of Animal Law (A-LAW), a charity whose vision is a world where animals are fully protected by law. She frequently lectures and writes about animal-related law and policy.
- Contents:
- Part 1.
- Animal welfare fundamentals
- Part 2.
- Animal farming, transportation and killing
- Part 3.
- Animal use for other purposes
- Part 4.
- Species-specific concerns
- Part 5.
- Recent and emerging issues
- Part 6.
- Animal ethics and law
- Part 7.
- Social change for animals.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 16, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Routledge handbook of animal welfare
- ISBN:
- 9781003182351
- 1003182356
- 9781000635782
- 1000635783
- 9781000635768
- 1000635767
- Publisher Number:
- 99993282094
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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