Includes bibliographical references and index.

Habitat Loss: Changing How Animals Think? / Paul C. Paquet and Shelley M. Alexander -- Whale Entanglement: a 21st-century Challenge in the Ocean / Sarah Dolman, Regina Asmutis-Silvia and Conor Ryan -- The Welfare Effects of PCBs in the Ocean / Mark Peter Simmonds -- The Fence: the Welfare Implications of the Loss of the True Wild / Adam G. Hart -- Trophy Hunting and Animal Welfare / Mark Jones and Chris Draper -- Carry on Carrion: the Fall of the Scavenger / Maria Panagiotopoulou, Panagiotis Azmanis, Rigas Tsiakiris and Kalliopi Stara -- Restoring What We Have Destroyed: Animal Welfare Aspects of Wildlife Conservation, Reintroduction and Rewilding Programmes / Charlotte Berg -- Intensification: the Pressures of Volume / Joyce D'Silva -- Welfare Challenges: Feedlot Cattle / Miriam Martin and Temple Grandin -- Public Opinion and the Retailer: Driving Forces in Animal Welfare? / Henry Buller -- Vertebrate/Invertebrate: When Do We Start Caring? / Michael J. Kuba -- Animal Welfare at Slaughter: a Level Global Playing Field? / Paul Whittington -- Precision Livestock Farming: the Future of Livestock Welfare Monitoring and Management? / Tom�as Norton and Daniel Berckmans -- The Paradoxical World of the Dog / John Bradshaw and Elly Hiby -- Animal Experience of Domestication / Xavier Boivin -- Better to Have Lived and Lost: the Concept of a Life Worth Living / James Yeates -- If Fishes Feel Pain, What Should We Do? / Victoria A. Braithwaite -- Anthropomorphism: Faulty Thinking or Useful Tool? / Charles Foster -- Speciesism / Stijn Bruers -- Longevity and Brevity: Is Death a Welfare Issue? / Andy Butterworth and James Yeates -- Promises and Challenges of Big Data Associated With Automated Dairy Cow Welfare Assessment / Kristof Hermans, Geert Opsomer, Bonny Van Ranst and Miel Hostens -- Animal Welfare: Information in a Changing World / Harry J. Blokhuis -- Licensed to Harm / Rebecca Aldworth -- Animal Watching in Tourism / Taryn Glass and David A. Fennell -- The Rise of the Inclusive Approach to Change in Animal Welfare / Philip Lymbery -- Animal Welfare Protection in the Face of Shrinking Public Resource / Sophia Hepple.

This 273-paged book outlines a number of the key dilemmas in animal welfare for today's, and tomorrow's, world. The issues discussed range from the welfare of hunted animals, to debates around intensive farming versus sustainability, and the effects of climate and environmental change. It explores the effects of fences on wild animals and human impacts on carrion animals; the impacts of tourism on animal welfare; philosophical questions about speciesism; and the quality and quantity of animal lives. The welfare impacts of human-animal interactions are explored, including human impacts on marine mammals, fish, wildlife, and companion and farm animals. Salient features of this book includes being concise, opinion-based views on important issues in animal welfare by world experts and key opinion leaders. Pieces based on experience, which balance evidence-based approaches and the welfare impacts of direct engagement through training, campaigning and education. A wide-ranging collection of examples and descriptions of animal welfare topics which outline dilemmas in the real world, that are sometimes challenging, and not always comfortable reading. This book is highly recommended for animal and veterinary scientists, ethologists, policy and opinion leaders, NGOs, conservation biologists and anyone who feels passionately about the welfare of animals.

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