Vital Systems Security

Environment and Planning A has a new issue out with many articles about biosecurity, including one by Lyle Fearnley on Syndromic Surveillance that draws on work that is familiar to all of us. Here is a table of contents for the issue:

Issue 7

Commentary

Theme issue: Biosecurity: spaces, practices, and boundaries
Guest editors: Nick Bingham, Gareth Enticott, Steve Hinchliffe

Guest editorial

Securing life: the emerging practices of biosecurity 1534 – 1551
Steve Hinchliffe, Nick Bingham

Biosecurity after the event: risk politics and animal disease 1552 – 1567
Andrew Donaldson

The spaces of biosecurity: prescribing and negotiating solutions to bovine tuberculosis 1568 – 1582
Gareth Enticott

Safe from the wolf: biosecurity, biodiversity, and competing philosophies of nature 1583 – 1597
Henry Buller

Flexible boundaries in biosecurity: accommodating gorse in Aotearoa New Zealand 1598 – 1614
Kezia Barker

Signals come and go: syndromic surveillance and styles of biosecurity 1615 – 1632
Lyle Fearnley

Affect work and infected bodies: biosecurity in an age of emerging infectious disease 1633 – 1646
Claire Major

The practice of biosecurity in Canada: public health legal preparedness and Toronto’s SARS crisis 1647 – 1663
Estair Van Wagner

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