Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 History of Livestock and Animal Health Economics -- PART I: THEORY AND TOOLS FOR THE ECONOMICS OF ANIMAL HEALTH AND PRODUCTION -- 2 What Is Economics and How Is It Useful? -- 3 Livestock Production Economics -- 4 Economics of Controlling Livestock Diseases: Basic Theory -- 5 Data Collection -- 6 Livestock Data Collection Methods -- 7 Economic Analysis Tools -- 8 Modelling and the Generation of Information -- 9 Optimization Methods for Assisting Policy Decisions on Endemic Diseases -- 10 Tools That Go Beyond the Enterprise, Farm or Business Level: Investigating Markets, Market Trends and Assessing Public Investments in the Livestock Sector -- 11 Tools for Assessing the Price and Market Impacts of Livestock Policies -- 12 The New Institutional Economics and the Assessment of Animal Disease Control -- 13 Social and Cultural Factors -- 14 The Economics of Zoonoses and Their Control -- 15 Livestock Populations and Production Systems -- PART II: A REVIEW OF THE APPLICATION OF ECONOMICS TO ANIMAL DISEASES AND HEALTH PROBLEMS -- 16 The Main Livestock Diseases -- 17 Diseases of Large Ruminants -- 18 Diseases of Small Ruminants -- 19 Diseases of Pigs -- 20 Diseases of Poultry -- PART III: ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY MAKING: EXAMPLES FROM AROUND THE WORLD -- 21 Livestock Policy and Poverty Reduction: Experiences from the Developing World -- 22 Economics in Animal Health Policy Making in Northern Ireland -- 23 Animal Diseases Management in a New Livestock Trade Environment: the Case of Chile -- 24 Decision Making, Scales and Quality of Economic Evaluations for the Control of Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP): the Use of Economic Analysis Methods in Combination with Epidemiological and Geographical Models to Help Decision Making for CBPP Control in Ethiopia.

25 Animal Health Policy in South Asia: What Can Economic Analysis Contribute? -- 26 Approaches to Economic Analyses and Implications for Policy Issues in South-east Asia: Results from Three Case Studies in Crop-Animal Systems -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.