Economics of invasive species policy and management

RS Epanchin-Niell - Biological invasions, 2017 - Springer
This article examines the use of economic analysis to inform bioinvasion management, with
particular focus on forest resources. Economics is key for understanding invasion processes …

Economic studies reinforce efforts to safeguard specialty crops in the United States

M Fuchs, CV Almeyda, M Al Rwahnih… - Plant …, 2021 - Am Phytopath Society
Pathogen-tested foundation plant stocks are the cornerstone of sustainable specialty crop
production. They provide the propagative units that are used to produce clean planting …

Free-Riding in Plant Health: A Social-Ecological Systems Approach to Collective Action

S Garcia-Figuera, SR Lowder, MN Lubell… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Plant disease epidemics often transcend land management boundaries, creating a
collective-action problem where a group must cooperate in a common effort to maximize …

When my neighbors matter: Spillover effects in the adoption of large‐scale pesticide‐free wheat production

Y Wang, N Möhring, R Finger - Agricultural Economics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the spillover effects in farmers' adoption decisions of a novel pesticide‐free
wheat production system. To this end, we exploit the variability and asymmetry in the social …

Estimating the cost of invasive species control

SL Jardine, JN Sanchirico - Journal of Environmental Economics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Optimal invasive species control depends on the nature of the removal cost function.
Obtaining reliable estimates of removal costs, however, is challenging because the …

The nature of economic costs of biological invasions

AC Vaissière, P Courtois, F Courchamp… - Biological …, 2022 - Springer
The management of invasive alien species (IAS) is complex and requires consideration of
intertwined ecological and economic dimensions. Given the wide variety of costing purposes …

Individual and cooperative management of invasive species in human‐mediated landscapes

RS Epanchin-Niell, JE Wilen - American Journal of Agricultural …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
As a bioinvasion spreads across a landscape from its point of introduction, damages rise
roughly with the square of the distance from the original invasion. It is thus generally …

Living with locusts: connecting soil nitrogen, locust outbreaks, livelihoods, and livestock markets

AJ Cease, JJ Elser, EP Fenichel, JC Hadrich… - Bioscience, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) are systems of feedback linking people and
ecosystems. A feature of CHANS is that this ecological feedback connects people across …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal salmon lice treatment threshold and tragedy of the commons in salmon farm networks

TJ Kragesteen, K Simonsen, AW Visser, KH Andersen - Aquaculture, 2019 - Elsevier
The ectoparasite Lepeophtheirus salmonis has for decades plagued salmon aquaculture by
decreasing profits and impacting wild salmon stocks. To protect migrating wild salmon …

Restricted access to private properties limits management of invasive alien species: A literature review and case studies

S Bertolino, G Vimercati, D Paoloni, A Martinoli… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biological invasions are one of the major drivers of global environmental change and there
is a need to develop integrated strategies to counteract this phenomenon. Eradication is an …