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Mosquitopia: The Place of Pests in a Healthy World [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 290 pages, height x width: 234x156 mm, weight: 740 g, 4 Line drawings, black and white; 49 Halftones, black and white; 53 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sērija : Routledge Environmental Humanities
  • Izdošanas datums: 02-Sep-2021
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0367520117
  • ISBN-13: 9780367520113
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 290 pages, height x width: 234x156 mm, weight: 740 g, 4 Line drawings, black and white; 49 Halftones, black and white; 53 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sērija : Routledge Environmental Humanities
  • Izdošanas datums: 02-Sep-2021
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  • ISBN-10: 0367520117
  • ISBN-13: 9780367520113
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"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"--

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.



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. This book provides informed answers to the dual question: could we eliminate mosquitoes, and should we?

Recenzijas

This book is a fascinating and thought-provoking discussion provided by a diverse array of authors with unique viewpoints and observations regarding the mosquito-human interaction while we, as humans, contemplate our place within a Mosquitopia.

James Cilek, Medical Entomologist

The collection as a whole is indispensable for anyone with a scholarly interest in mosquitoes, mosquito-borne disease, and mosquito control.

John McNeill, author of Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914

List of figures viii
List of contributors xii
Foreword xvii
Part I Could We (Should We) Eliminate Mosquitoes? 1(46)
1 Killing mosquitoes: Think before you swat
3(13)
Marcus Hall
Dan Tamil
2 The mosquito: An introduction
16(16)
Frances M. Hawkes
Richard J. Hopkins
3 Understanding multispecies mobilities: From mosquito eradication to coexistence
32(15)
Uli Beisel
Carsten Wergin
Part II Learning From Experience 47(60)
4 The long arc of mosquito control
49(12)
James L.A. Webb Jr
5 Domesticated Mosquitoes: Colonization and the growth of mosquito habitats in North America
61(12)
Urmi Engineer Willoughby
6 Could we/should we eradicate mosquitoes?: The case of the yellow fever vector
73(14)
Nancy Leys Stepan
7 Fighting nuisance on the northern fringe: Controlling mosquitoes in Britain between the World Wars
87(20)
Peter Coates
Part III Know Thy Enemy 107(56)
8 The mosquito and malaria: Would mosquito control alone eliminate the disease?
109(14)
Willem Takken
9 Living with mosquitoes in disease-free contexts: Attitudes and perceptions of risk in English wetlands
123(21)
Adriana Ford
Mary Gearey
Tim G. Acott
10 Awe, Wonder, Excitement
144(19)
Kerry Morrison
Helmut Lemke
Part IV Know Thyself 163(48)
11 Enacting politics with mosquitoes: Beyond eradication and control
165(18)
Jean Segata
12 Eradication against ambivalence
183(12)
Alex Nading
13 The innocent mosquito?: The environmental ethics of mosquito eradication
195(16)
Anna Wienhues
Part V Improving Human-mosquito Relationships 211(64)
14 Mosquito control: Success, failure and expectations in the context of arbovirus expansion and emergence
213(21)
Isabelle Dusfour
Sarah C. Chaney
15 Designer mosquitoes?: Prospects and precautions of genome-edited insects for public health
234(14)
Ramya M. Rajagopalan
16 The Mosquitome: A new frontier for sustainable vector control
248(13)
Frederic Simard
17 Mosquito utopias and dystopias: A dispatch from the front lines
261(14)
Indra Vythilingam
Afterword 275(9)
Index 284
Marcus Hall is an environmental historian and professor at the University of Zurich. In exploring changing human relationships with the natural world, Hall has turned to such subjects as restoring, rewilding, invasive species, warfare, earth art, chronobiology, malaria, and parasites. His books include Earth Repair, Restoration and History, Crossing Mountains, and (with Marco Armiero) Nature and History in Modern Italy.

Dan Tamļr is environmental historian and research associate at the University of Zurich. His research examines the global circulation and the local adaptations of ideologies, species and resources. His current research focuses on the global political cooperation in targeting mosquito-borne diseases during the past century.