Table of Contents

Introduction: Science, Law, Policy and Economics of Animal Health and Welfare; Chapter 1: Combining Sciences; Chapter 2: Understanding and assessing the risk management of animal health and welfare; Chapter 3: Regulating animal health and welfare: law and economics; Chapter 4: The Precautionary Principle and Principles of Cost Sharing and Responsibility; Chapter 5: Case study of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and Bluetongue: examples of exotic diseases; Chapter 6: Case studies of Bovine viral diarrhoea (BVDV), Johne's Disease, and TB in cattle examples of endemic diseases; Chapter 7: Policy making and future regulatory strategy