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This open access book applies for the first time emerging concepts of socioeconomics to analyse an economic sector, namely agriculture. It considers the rational choices of all actors in the system (just as agricultural economists do) and their cultural preferences and constraints (just as rural sociologists do). Socioeconomic concepts are subsequently used to structure agricultural issues with regard to the three governance mechanisms (hierarchy, markets, and cooperation), and different agricultural systems are presented and compared. The book will be of interest to social scientists with various backgrounds, and seeks to break down the barriers of single-disciplinary thinking.

Hierarchy --- Cooperation --- Agricultural systems --- Governance --- Primary sector --- Socioeconomics --- Agri-food chain --- Agricultural economics

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Consumers trust is a key factor in dealing with rising concerns about food safety and food quality, but only few studies have dealt with consumer attitudes and none of them has tried to model the process of consumer response. This book reports the main findings of an european project aimed at analysing trust along the food chain and its relationship with food risk communication. The papers collected investigate the mechanisms that determine the social diffusion of trust, examining the interplay of the psychological, sociological and economic factors; and analyze the impact of the food risk communication policies on consumers and producers and on the society as a whole.

economics --- sociology --- unione europea --- alimentazione --- sociologia --- atti di convegno --- european union --- proceedings --- nutrition --- economia --- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy --- Chicken --- Food chain --- Food safety --- France --- Germany --- Italy --- Netherlands --- Risk management --- Risk perception

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The One Health concept recognizes that the health of humans, animals, and their ecosystems are interconnected, and that a coordinated, collaborative, multidisciplinary, and cross-sectoral approach is necessary to fully understand and respond to potential or existing risks that originate at the animal–human–ecosystems interfaces. Thus, the One Health concept represents a holistic vision for addressing some of the complex challenges that threaten human and animal health, food safety, and the environments in which diseases flourish. There are many examples showing how the health of humans is related to the health of animals and the environment. Diseases shared between humans and animals are zoonoses. Some zoonoses have been known for many years, whereas others have emerged suddenly and unexpectedly. Over 70% of all new emerging diseases over the past few decades have been zoonoses that have emerged from wildlife, most often from bats, rodents, or birds. Examples of zoonoses are many and varied, ranging from rabies to bovine tuberculosis, and from Japanese encephalitis to SARS. Clearly, a One Health approach is essential for understanding their ecology, and for outbreak response and the development of control strategies. However, the One Health concept and approach is much broader than zoonoses; it extends to including antimicrobial resistance, food safety, and environmental health and, consequently, impacts on global health security, economic wellbeing, and international trade. It is this breadth of One Health that connects the papers in this Special Issue.

Clostridium difficile --- Asia --- epidemiology --- One Health --- C. burnetii --- Q fever --- Australia --- pyrogenicity --- guinea pigs --- One Health --- antibiotics --- antimicrobials --- antimicrobial resistance --- environment --- water --- infrastructure --- Australia --- emerging disease --- international health regulations --- Joint External Evaluation (JEE) --- One Health --- Performance of Veterinary Services (PVS) --- surveillance --- wildlife --- zoonosis --- Japanese encephalitis virus --- zoonosis --- mosquito --- transmission --- Australia --- Australian bat lyssavirus --- microbats --- Western Australia --- serology --- Luminex --- real-time PCR --- AMR --- One Health --- food chain --- trade --- Codex --- WHO --- World Trade Organization (WTO) --- scrub typhus --- One Health --- incidence --- clinical pattern --- descriptive epidemiology --- vector-borne disease --- emerging disease --- One Health --- zoonoses --- Ebola virus --- emerging infectious diseases --- zoonoses --- prevalence --- Brucella abortus --- urban livestock keeping --- smallholder farming --- n/a --- influenza --- swine --- Australia --- human --- pandemic

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The emergence of marine and freshwater toxins in geographical areas where they have never been reported before is a concern due to the considerable impact on (sea)food contamination, and consequently, on public health. Several groups of marine biotoxins, in particular tetrodotoxins, ciguatoxins, and palytoxins, are included among the relevant marine biotoxins that have recently emerged in several coastal areas. A similar situation has been observed in freshwater, where cyanobacterial toxins, such as microcystins, could end up in unexpected areas such as the estuaries where shellfish are cultivated. Climate change and the increased availability of nutrients have been considered as the key factors in the expansion of all of these toxins into new areas; however, this could also be due to more intense biological invasions, more sensitive analytical methods, or perhaps even an increased scientific interest in these natural contaminations. The incidences of human intoxications due to the consumption of seafood contaminated with these toxins have made their study an important task to accomplish in order to protect human health. This Special Issue has a focus on a wide variety of emerging biotoxin classes and techniques to identify and quantify them.

zoantharian --- ShK-like peptide --- dynamics simulation --- voltage-gated K+ ion channel --- calcium-activated K+ ion channel --- animal toxins --- Ciguatera fish poisoning --- Gambierdiscus --- quorum sensing --- algal–bacterial relationship --- eutrophication --- Microcystis --- spatial variability --- cyanotoxins --- ELISA --- PPIA --- food chain --- Rastrineobola argentea --- marine toxins --- LC-HRMS --- targeted analysis --- suspects screening --- non-targeted analysis --- method characterization --- paralytic shellfish toxins --- acute toxicity --- oral toxicity --- tetrodotoxin --- saxitoxin --- toxicity equivalence factor --- NMR spectroscopy --- disulfide-rich peptide --- conotoxin --- tetrodotoxins --- bivalve mollusks --- marine biotoxins --- LC-MS/MS --- neuroblastoma bioassay --- Chinese yellow catfish --- whole genome sequencing --- toxin genes --- identification --- ciguatera fish poisoning --- gambierdiscus --- seafood safety --- C-CTX-1 --- water flea --- Daphnia magna --- dopaminergic neurons --- cyanobacterial toxin --- BMAA --- beta-methyl-amino-l-alanine --- neurodegeneration --- palytoxin --- ovatoxins --- mass spectrometry --- cationization --- toxicology --- thermal water --- marine --- adaptation --- evolution --- spent medium --- ciguatera fish poisoning --- macaronesia --- caribbean ciguatoxins --- LC-MS/MS --- N2a --- n/a