Biosecurity has gained significant interest in farm animal health in recent years. However, in dairy cattle farms, there is slight, or no implementation of biosecurity practices recommended by official authorities and techno-scientific experts. This situation might be explained by the tension between old farming traditions and routines and veterinary recommendations. We draw upon Lefebvre’s threefold model of space, which addresses spatial practices (old traditions and routines), representations of space (recommendations) and representational space (final implementation of biosecurity measures), constituting security ecologies to understand what might be happening by using an ethnographic approach on two farms in Galicia and two in Catalonia in Spain. The three biosecurity practices considered are management of dead animals, control of vectors and pests, and animal management. The results show that farms have different specific contexts, and that the reasons behind the positions of farmers and veterinarians, effective communication and common sense need to be considered. Security ecologies based on Lefebvre’s model could therefore be a positive mechanism for ensuring the implementation of biosecurity, beyond the visions of authorities or specialists.

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从生物安全到安全生态：西班牙古老的奶牛养殖传统和惯例与兽医建议之间的分析

近年来，生物安全已对家畜健康产生了浓厚的兴趣。但是，在奶牛场中，官方机构和技术专家建议的生物安全措施很少或根本没有实施。造成这种情况的原因可能是古老的耕作传统与常规和兽医建议之间的紧张关系。我们借鉴勒费弗尔的三重空间模型，该模型涉及空间实践（旧的传统和惯例），空间的表示形式（建议）和代表性的空间（生物安全措施的最终实施），构成了安全生态学，以了解使用民族志可能发生的事情加利西亚的两个农场和西班牙的加泰罗尼亚的两个农场。考虑的三种生物安全措施是死动物的管理，病媒和害虫的控制以及动物管理。结果表明，农场具有不同的特定环境，需要考虑农民和兽医的职位背后的原因，有效的沟通和常识。因此，基于Lefebvre模型的安全生态系统可以成为确保实施生物安全的积极机制，其作用超出了主管部门或专家的视野。