Animals in Emergencies
learning from the christchurch earthquakes
$10.29
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2014
Summary
After the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that shook Canterbury on 4 September 2010, the news media were quick to report, with understandable relief, that no lives had been lost. In fact, this first quake killed at least 3000 chickens, eight cows, one dog, a lemur and 150 aquarium fish, and that was only the first of a series of even more catastrophic quakes that were to follow, in which many humans and animals perished. Animals in Emergencies: Learning from the Christchurch Earthquakes provides a r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781927145500 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1927145503 |
| Author: | Potts Annie |
| Publisher: | Canterbury University Press |
| Imprint: | Canterbury University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2014 |
| Weight: | 680g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 165mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Potts Annie
Annie Potts is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies at the University of Canterbury. She teaches courses on the representation of animals and human-animal interactions in popular culture and everyday life. Annie is the author of Chicken (Reaktion Books) and a coauthor of A New Zealand Book of Beasts: Animals in our Culture, History and Everyday Life (AUP). She is the New Zealand Companion Animal Council’s representative on the National Animal Welfare Emergency Management advisory group. Donelle Gadenne qualified as a veterinary nurse in Perth, WA. She has worked at over 23 veterinary practices in Australia, as a locum at a surgical referral centre and a university-based veterinary training hospital. In 2013 Donelle relocated to Christchurch to complete a Masters of Arts in English at the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies at the University of Canterbury.
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