One Health, Ecology, and the Politics of Emerging Infectious Diseases: Livestock at the Crossroads

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.

Mariel Aguilar-Støen is professor of Human Geography at the Centre for Global Sustainability. Her work focuses on agrarian change related to industrial agriculture and extractive industries in Latin America and Scandinavia.

Jostein Jakobsen is a Researcher at the Centre for Global Sustainability, University of Oslo. His research is based in economic geography and agrarian studies, with a longstanding research interest in India. He has published on topics such as the global food regime, authoritarian populism, and agricultural supply chains.

Rebecca Leigh Rutt is an Associate Professor at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen. She contributes research and education inspired by feminist political ecology, justice perspectives, and by the pluriversal degrowth global movement.