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Are we defending the indefensible? Reflecting on policy and practice around ‘the border’ in plant biosecurity for tree health

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21/08/2019
Author
White, Rehema M.
Marzano, Mariella
Leahy, Sharon
Jones, Glyn
Keywords
Forest management
Tree health
Social science
Biosecurity
Borders
Pest
Pathogen
Governance
GE Environmental Sciences
GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
NDAS
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Abstract
The challenges to forest health from climate change, globalization, contemporary trade practices and new recreational patterns require effective biosecurity. We asked: How is the biosecurity border for tree health understood and enacted by state and non-state actors? What are the consequences for tree health? Semi-structured interviews (N = 10) were conducted with scientists and other relevant actors (N = 21). The border was understood variously as: a biophysical boundary, often the coast; a geopolitical boundary, usually of the European Union; the points of main inspection focus; dispersed nodes of inspection; a ‘pre-border’ outside of UK; or by the location of detection activities. A wide range of state, non-state and hybrid groups are engaged in border practices. These practices have been altered due to trade and climate changes, are subject to cost and resource priorities and reflect particular knowledge flows and the biological nature of the agents. We suggest that there is an ‘everyone’ as well as ‘everywhere’ border that demands clarification of risks, roles and responsibilities, and we offer practical recommendations. We conclude that tree health border challenges are a manifestation of wider sustainability issues that enable us to explore human–nature relationships, democratic engagement and the pursuit of more sustainable futures.
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White , R M , Marzano , M , Leahy , S & Jones , G 2019 , ' Are we defending the indefensible? Reflecting on policy and practice around ‘the border’ in plant biosecurity for tree health ' , Forests , vol. 10 , no. 9 , 716 . https://doi.org/10.3390/f10090716
Publication
Forests
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/f10090716
Type
Journal article
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© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Funding: UK BBSRC grant BB/L012030/1 for the project New approaches for the early detection of tree health pests and pathogens.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/18348

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