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Assertions of "national biosovereignty" (9) intersect with global health norms of open-access research and transparent surveillance, creating a contested domain of "global health diplomacy" (126). Conversely, Fearnley shows how the complex interplay between science, geopolitics, socioeconomics and culture have produced certain narratives of virulent zones in certain places. Virulent zones: animal disease and global health at China's Pandemic epicenter: by Fearnley, L, Durham, Duke University Press, 2020, 296 pp. [Extracted from the article]

But, according to the authors, understanding pathogen history and evolution holds the key to saving technological humanity from the onslaught of those many EIDs that have yet to explore the immense opportunity space that climate change and human civilization have provided them with. By taking us on a whirlwind tour through the history of such diverse topics as evolutionary biology, the history of vaccines, past pandemics, and climate change, Brooks, Hoberg, and Boeger dismantle our preconceived notions about host-pathogen co-evolution, they explain how we got into the current mess, as they aptly call it, and propose a possible way to get out of it before it is too late. Daniel R. Brooks, Eric P. Hoberg, Walter A. Boeger, The Stockholm Paradigm: Climate Change and Emerging Disease. [Extracted from the article]

The diverse perspectives work well, collectively, to unpack the stereotypical, reductionist and racialised constructions and framing of refugees and asylum seekers in Australian public discourse. Refugee Journeys: Histories of Resettlement, Representation and Resistance: Edited by Jordana Silverstein and Rachel Stevens. The book collection brings together diverse perspectives and research on the historical trajectories of asylum-seeker policies, mapping out the underlying ideological and political forces behind these policies. [Extracted from the article]

The editorial from Ocean Dynamics provides an overview of the journal's activities in 2023. It begins with the sad news of the passing of Prof. Dr. Jörg-Olaf Wolff, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal. The editors express their appreciation to the 220 reviewers from thirty-six different countries who evaluated manuscripts in 2023. The COVID pandemic had a significant impact on the journal's submissions, but in 2023, the number of published papers increased by approximately 15%. The journal also started publishing special issues again, with the first collection being the 12th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean in Michigan. The editorial concludes by thanking the guest editors and the editorial and production staff of Springer Nature. [Extracted from the article]