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Changing Human Behaviour to Enhance Animal Welfare
Edited by: Rebecca Sommerville, Dog Behaviourist, UK
September 2021 | ePub 9781789247251 | ePDF 9781789247244
September 2021 | Paperback | 208 Pages | 9781789247237
Series : CABI Concise
£35.00 | €40.00 | $47.00
Description
Table of contents
- Section I: Enhancing animal welfare – a profession with human engagement at its centre
- 1: The Need for Recognition of Practical Animal Welfare as a Profession
- 2: Animal Welfare: The Human Element
- 3: From Stakeholder Education to Engagement, Using Strategies from Social Science
- 4: It Takes a Village: Community Engagement for Sustainable Animal Welfare
- 5: Educating the Animal Welfare Practitioners of the Future
- Section II: Enhancing animal welfare in practice worldwide
- 6: Moving an Industry: Protecting Farm Animals with Science-based Advocacy
- 7: Applying the Science of Animal Welfare to Build More Responsible Food Supply Chains: Reflections from a Corporate Sustainability Professional
- 8: Farm Animal Welfare in the Nigerian context
- 9: Protecting Animals in India: A Government Perspective through History to the Present Day
- 10: The Animals Powering the World: Promoting Working Animal Welfare in Resource-poor Contexts
- 11: Strengthening Existing Healthcare Systems for Sustainable Animal Welfare
Readership
Animal welfare practitioners. Veterinary practitioners. It is an important text for animal welfare advisers, researchers, welfare auditors and veterinarians and key reading for all those concerned with animal welfare in non-governmental organisations, in governments, in industry and at universities.Reviews
This book will be an enjoyable and informative addition to the bookshelf of any student or practitioner who works in the field of animal welfare, whether research- or intervention-based. Readers will certainly find themselves equipped with an interesting range of ideas and tools with which to carry out their future work. - Tamzin Furtado, Universities Federation for Animal Welfare
Rebecca Sommerville is an animal behaviourist and welfare scientist that has worked for several leading international charities. She completed an MSc in Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare at the University of Edinburgh and a BSc in Animal Behaviour at the University of Sheffield. Rebecca currently works in the Post Adoption Support team at Dogs Trust and previously worked as a Global animal welfare advisor for Brooke – Action for Working Horses and Donkeys, on working equids in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Before this she was a researcher in the Food Business team at Compassion in World Farming, helping large food companies raise the minimum standards of welfare for farm animals. Rebecca is currently also Development Officer for the International Society for Applied Ethology, aiming to promote applied animal behaviour and welfare science in developing countries. She also provides behaviour consultations and practical training to dog owners and veterinary practices through her business Behaviour by Becca. Rebecca is undertaking accreditation to become a Certified Clinical Animal Behaviourist and has published scientific papers on animal behaviour and applying animal welfare at NGOS, as well as presented at several international scientific conferences. She has contributed to a book for farmers on pig welfare, a UK-wide research study into the welfare issues of companion animals and was recently featured on the BBC News 100 Days show to discuss the evolution of dogs’ faces from wolves.
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