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
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