Neoliberal Ebola Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm

This book compiles five papers modeling the effects of neoliberal economics on the emergence of Ebola and its aftermath. The multidisciplinary teams represented here place both Ebola Makona, the Zaire Ebola virus variant that has infected 28,000 in West Africa, and Ebola Reston, which is currently e...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wallace, Robert G. (Editor), Wallace, Rodrick (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2016, 2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Did Ebola emerge in West Africa by a policy-driven phase change in agroecology?
  • Ebola in the hog sector: Modeling pandemic emergence in commodity livestock
  • Did neoliberalizing West African forests produce a vaccine-resistant Ebola?
  • Introducing pandemic control theory
  • The social amplification of pandemics and other disasters