Show Notes
Biosecurity is often thought of as systems and agencies. But communities, people, and places are also doing the long term work, often with little resourcing and even less say in how it gets done.
In this episode Dr Sylvia Nissen, political scientist and human geographer at Lincoln University, joins Amanda and Peter to explore what role communities actually play in biosecurity responses, where the system falls short, and what a more community embedded approach might look like.
If we are talking shared responsibility, is there shared resourcing?
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00:00 Reimagining Biosecurity 00:51 Podcast Welcome 01:29 Meet Dr Sylvia Nissen 02:35 System Today vs Ideal 04:01 Communities in Response 06:44 Defining Community Publics 08:27 Command and Control Limits 13:07 Resourcing and Burnout 17:21 Biosecurity System Overview 19:12 Trade Driven Origins 26:52 Conservation Gets Sidelined 29:44 Patchwork Policy Problems 30:19 Community Conservation Disconnect 32:02 Funding That Lasts 33:34 Motivation and Authority 35:14 Crisis Response Lessons 38:50 Handover Gaps and Boundaries 41:59 Rebuilding Trust Spaces 45:59 Real Time Information Networks 52:14 Community Embedded Biosecurity 54:47 Reimagining the System 56:05 Closing Thanks and Wrap Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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