New Approaches to the Economics of Plant Health

2007
ISBN: 978-1-4020-5826-4
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 204 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 335 g

Reihe: Wageningen UR Frontis Series

This book presents the outcomes of a workshop around the emerging area of the economics of plant health. The workshop was organized in Wageningen in July 2005 under the auspices of Frontis – Wageningen International Nucleus for Strategic Expertise. Plant health nowadays plays an increasing role in national and international policy making. This explains the interest of the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality in this workshop. The increasing importance of plant health in international policy making also follows from the recent establishment of a scientific panel on plant health by the European Food Safety Authority. This panel has to advise the EU on policy issues in the area of plant health. Plant health issues have numerous economic dimensions. Measures to control quarantine diseases and invasive species are usually costly, whereas the potential benefits, e. g., avoided losses, are often difficult to quantify. Quantifying the costs and benefits requires close collaboration between economists and epidemiologists. New GIS tools can play an important role in visualizing and modelling the combined economic and epidemiological consequences of control measures. Quarantine organisms and invasive species also frequently have impacts that go beyond agriculture. Impacts on landscapes and the environment call for the application of new approaches to measuring the economic impacts on society. This book presents a number of new approaches to economic modelling of plant health; it is primarily intended for policy makers and scientists working in the area of plant health.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oude Lansink, Alfons G. J. M.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsmathematik und -statistik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Ökonometrie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Schädlingsbekämpfung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Efficient Inspection Policies.- Robust Inspection for Invasive Species with a Limited Budget.- On Economic-Cost Minimization Versus Biological-Invasion Damage Control.- Designing Optimal Phytosanitary Inspection Policy.- Quantifying Risks and Economic Effects Using Spatial Models.- Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Brown-Rot Control Strategies.- Risk and Indemnification Models of Infectious Plant Diseases.- Hurricanes And Invasive Species.- Methods for Modelling Non-Monetary Impacts of Phytosanitary Policies.- Estimating the Economic Value of Trees at Risk from a Quarantine Disease.- Multi-Criteria Decision Making to Evaluate Quarantine Disease Control Strategies.- Costs and Benefits of Phytosanitary Measures.- Phytosanitary Measures Under Uncertainty.- The Benefits and Costs of Specific Phytosanitary Campaigns in the UK.- Economic and Biophysical Aspects of Plant Health Policies.- Model Frameworks For Strategic Economic Management of Invasive Species.- Analysis of Environmental Risks.- New Approaches to the Economics of Plant Health.- New Approaches To The Economics Of Plant Health.