fair game? animal vulnerability and disasters in a...
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Fair Game?Animal Vulnerability and
Disasters in a Globalized World
Greg BankoffAssociate Professor, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland and
Visiting Professor of Disaster Management, Coventry University [email protected]
Animal lives are lost in disasters
Dead Fish on beach after Tsunami, Teluk Bahang, Penang, Malaysia, December 2004
Animals are exposed to same risks
Without grass livestock are malnourished, Kenya 2006
Natural hazards
Lioness growling at a fire, Serengeti, Tanzania
Epizootics
African Swine Fever can be caused when animals eat contaminated garbage
Anthropogenic hazards
Abandoned domestic animals gone feral, Chernobyl Seclusion Zone, Ukraine
Animals & emergency management
Cattle skull, Australia
Disparity in the power relationship
Animal market, Indonesia
Social vulnerability
Livestock, Senegal
Domesticated animals
Deer farming, New Zealand
‘Caged’ animals
Wild animals
Crested Black Macaques
Different hazards in different ways
Someone’s property
Globalisation of disasters
Melting polar ice cap
Planetary-scale hazards
Carried far from their point source
Sea Otter cub coated in oil, Exxon Valdez spill, Prince William Sound, Alaska in 1989
Alterations in means of production
Pile of dead drowned pigs, Hurricane Floyd, 1999
Fair Game?
Supplying emergency cattle feed after earthquake, Gujarat, India