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Lessons for New Zealand from Britain's Foot and Mouth Epidemic
Author(s) -
JAY MAIRI,
MORAD MUNIR,
BELL ANGELA
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
new zealand geographer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1745-7939
pISSN - 0028-8144
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-7939.2003.tb01652.x
Subject(s) - outbreak , geography , distribution (mathematics) , foot (prosody) , economic geography , political science , economic growth , development economics , socioeconomics , sociology , medicine , economics , virology , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics
This paper explores some implications for New Zealand's rural community of Britain's foot and mouth epidemic in the light of growing international trade and travel, and changes in New Zealand's rural society. The paper includes ecological mapping with a projected/likely spatial distribution of an epidemic in New Zealand, and an assessment of the possible institutional and social responses in the wake of a disease outbreak. It notes the course of the epidemic in Britain, and possible differences and similarities in institutional response frameworks between Britain and New Zealand.