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Laurie E. Neville

Laurie E. Neville is Program Coordinator for the Consequences of Animal Production Systems program with the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, and is based at Stanford University.

Livestock in a Changing Landscape, Volume 1

Livestock in a Changing Landscape, Volume 1

Drivers, Consequences, and Responses

The rapidly changing nature of animal production systems, especially increasing intensification and globalization, is playing out in complex ways around the world. Over the last century, livestock keeping evolved from a means of harnessing marginal resources to produce items for local consumption to a key component of global food chains.

Invasive Alien Species

Invasive Alien Species

A New Synthesis

Invasive alien species are among today's most daunting environmental threats, costing billions of dollars in economic damages and wreaking havoc on ecosystems around the world. In 1997, a consortium of scientific organizations including SCOPE, IUCN, and CABI developed the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) with the explicit objective of providing new tools for understanding and coping with invasive alien species.