Economic Consequences of Invasive Species Policies in the Presence of Commodity Programs: Theory and Application to Citrus Canker*

Acquaye, Albert K. A.; Alston, Julian M.; Lee, Hyunok; Sumner, Daniel A.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9353.2005.00250.x

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“…Therefore, sustainable orchard management is fundamentally all about the management of uncertainty over time. Second, as observed by Acquaye et al (2005) and Pierre et al (2006), orchards are often invaded by one or more animal or plant alien species. 2 Hence, effective orchard management ought 1 Following the work of Perrings (1987), ecological-economic systems are sometimes also known as economy-environment systems.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…2 Citrus canker and the Mediterranean fruit fly are two examples of alien species that frequently have a negative impact on fruit orchards in Florida in the United States. See Acquaye et al (2005) and to take this aspect of the management problem into consideration explicitly. Unfortunately, the papers discussed in the preceding paragraph and indeed the extant literature in general have not satisfactorily accounted for these two points.…”

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Optimal resource management in the presence of a deleterious alien species: a stochastic model for an orchard

Batabyal

Nijkamp

2008

Lett Spat Resour Sci

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Optimal resource management in the presence of a deleterious alien species: a stochastic model for an orchard

Batabyal

Nijkamp

2008

Lett Spat Resour Sci

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“…When invasion or policy impacts are large enough, their influence can extend across economic sectors, with sometimes unexpected consequences (e.g., tariffs increasing invasion susceptibility by altering domestic production; Costello and McAusland 2003). Policies also can interact in ways that should be taken into account in policy design (e.g., counterproductive interactions among invasion and agricultural policies; Acquaye et al 2005). Similarly, far-reaching ecological consequences of invasion management also can arise (Hulme 2006).…”

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Economics of invasive species policy and management

Epanchin‐Niell

2017

Biol Invasions

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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, impacts, and decision-making. Biological invasions are driven by and affect economic activities at multiple scales and stages of an invasion. Bioeconomic modeling seeks to inform how resources can be optimally allocated across invasion management activities-including prevention, surveillance programs for early detection and management, and controlling invasion populations and spread-to minimize the long-term costs and damages. Economic analysis facilitates understanding of decisions by public and private decision-makers, gaps between these, and the design of policies to achieve socially desirable outcomes. Private decisionmakers may undercontrol invasions relative to socially optimal levels, because they generally account for their own costs and benefits of control but less often for broader ecosystem impacts or future spread across the landscape. Economic analysis considers approaches for increasing private invasion management and evaluates feedbacks between ecological and economic systems that can affect policy outcomes. Future research should continue evaluation and design of control strategies across the biosecurity continuum and across species to enhance cost-effectiveness, better incorporate uncertainty into policy design, increase focus on incentives and behavioral tools to influence private behaviors that affect invasion spread, and incorporate invasive species consideration within broader systems-focused science. In addition, challenges in valuing biodiversity and ecosystem service impacts and the costs and effectiveness of control measures are key data gaps. Greater collaboration between decision-makers and researchers will facilitate development and communication of usable economic research.

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“…Quite a few studies have looked at optimal design and application of import tariffs in general [82,[92][93][94][95][96][97]. Several of these are reviewed in [6] where it is concluded that import tariffs on invasions risks may give rise to counter-productive increases in HIS.…”

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“…This counteracts higher domestic prices, and thereby reductions in consumer welfare and changes in land use, on rejected import goods. The focus in [97] was on how import tariffs can interact with other policies, such as agricultural policies for commodities. In their empirical illustration of the model to citrus canker, the authors revealed that an analysis that ignores the implications of import tariffs on other polices, such as crop insurance, might be misleading.…”

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Economics of Harmful Invasive Species: A Review

2014

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Abstract:The purpose of this study is to review theoretical and empirical findings in economics with respect to the challenging question of how to manage invasive species. The review revealed a relatively large body of literature on the assessment of damage costs of invasive species; single species and groups of species at different geographical scales. However, the estimated damage costs show large variation, from less than 1 million USD to costs corresponding to 12% of gross domestic product, depending on the methods employed, geographical scale, and scope with respect to inclusion of different species. Decisions regarding optimal management strategies, when to act in the invasion chain and which policy to choose, have received much less attention in earlier years, but have been subject to increasing research during the last decade. More difficult, but also more relevant policy issues have been raised, which concern the targeting in time and space of strategies under conditions of uncertainty. In particular, the weighting of costs and benefits from early detection and mitigation against the uncertain avoidance of damage with later control, when the precision in targeting species is typically greater is identified as a key challenge. The role of improved monitoring for detecting species and their spread and damage has been emphasized, but questions remain on how to achieve this in practice. This is in contrast to the relatively large body of literature on policies for mitigating dispersal by trade, which is regarded as one of the most important vectors for the spread of invasive species. On the other hand, the literature on how to mitigate established species, by control or adaptation, is much more scant. Studies evaluating causes for success or failure of policies against invasive in practice are in principal non-existing. OPEN ACCESSDiversity 2014, 6 501

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Economic Consequences of Invasive Species Policies in the Presence of Commodity Programs: Theory and Application to Citrus Canker*

Cited by 25 publications

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Optimal resource management in the presence of a deleterious alien species: a stochastic model for an orchard

Optimal resource management in the presence of a deleterious alien species: a stochastic model for an orchard

Economics of invasive species policy and management

Economics of Harmful Invasive Species: A Review

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