The Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare is out! – Welfare Footprint Project

The Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare is out!

May 2, 2022

The Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare, edited by Andrew Knight, Clive Phillips and Paula Sparks, can now be pre-ordered at Routledge’s site. The handbook presents a comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of the many topics in the growing field of animal welfare and law.

It was an honor to take part in this initiative. In Chapter 24 (Human Health and Animal Welfare), we describe how the impoverishment of animal health and welfare in modern animal production systems became a major driver of infectious disease emergence at a global level. We also focus on the direct effects of these systems on water and air pollution, the health of workers, and of local communities, as well as review the global health impacts of wildlife hunting, farming, trafficking, and trade. We close with a section on overconsumption of animal-sourced food as a major risk factor for non-communicable diseases, written by Dr. Eric Slywitch.

Further info at https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Animal-Welfare/Knight-Phillips-Sparks/p/book/9781032022062.

Table of Contents:

PART 1: Animal welfare fundamentals

1. The moral status of animals: biological foundations
2. Animal welfare concepts
3. Animal welfare assessment

PART 2: Animal farming, transportation and killing

4. Contemporary animal farming
5. Farming poultry
6. Farming pigs
7. Farming cattle
8. Farming sheep and goats
9. Farming nondomesticated and semidomesticated terrestrial species
10. Farming fish
11. Transportation
12. Slaughter, Euthanasia, and Depopulation

PART 3: Animal use for other purposes

13. Scientific and educational animal use
14. Animals in entertainment
15. Zoos and aquaria
16. Hunting, fishing and whaling
17. Commercial fisheries

PART 4: Species-specific concerns
18. Canines and felines
19. Equines
20. Non-domesticated terrestrial species
21. Companion fish
22. Marine mammals

PART 5: Recent and emerging issues

23. Climate change, human-wildlife conflict and biodiversity loss
24. Animal welfare and human health
25. Animal disaster management

PART 6: Animal ethics and law

26. Animal ethics
27. Animal law – historical, contemporary and international developments
28. Key animal law in Australia
29. Key animal law in China
30. Key animal law across Europe
31. Key animal law in India
32. Key animal law in South Africa
33. Key animal law in the United States

PART 7: Social change for animals

34. Stakeholder groups and perspectives
35. Animal advocacy and human behavioural change
36. Animal Welfare Education and Communication