Neoliberal Ebola Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wallace, Robert G. (Editor), Wallace, Rodrick (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Epidemiology.; Systems biology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Systems Biology.

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...

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.