How trade politics affect invasive species control

Margolis, Michael; Shogren, Jason F.; Fischer, Carolyn

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2004.07.017

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“…On one hand, trade is one of the major causes of species invasions (Crosby 1986, Nentwig 2007. On the other hand, species invasions have led to feedbacks including restrictions and inspections of traded goods and products, with calls for stronger measures such as tradable permit programs (Horan and Lupi 2005) and invasive species tariffs (Margolis et al 2005) in the future.…”

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Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

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Batistella³

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ABSTRACT. Interactions between distant places are increasingly widespread and influential, often leading to unexpected outcomes with profound implications for sustainability. Numerous sustainability studies have been conducted within a particular place with little attention to the impacts of distant interactions on sustainability in multiple places. Although distant forces have been studied, they are usually treated as exogenous variables and feedbacks have rarely been considered. To understand and integrate various distant interactions better, we propose an integrated framework based on telecoupling, an umbrella concept that refers to socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances. The concept of telecoupling is a logical extension of research on coupled human and natural systems, in which interactions occur within particular geographic locations. The telecoupling framework contains five major interrelated components, i.e., coupled human and natural systems, flows, agents, causes, and effects. We illustrate the framework using two examples of distant interactions associated with trade of agricultural commodities and invasive species, highlight the implications of the framework, and discuss research needs and approaches to move research on telecouplings forward. The framework can help to analyze system components and their interrelationships, identify research gaps, detect hidden costs and untapped benefits, provide a useful means to incorporate feedbacks as well as trade-offs and synergies across multiple systems (sending, receiving, and spillover systems), and improve the understanding of distant interactions and the effectiveness of policies for socioeconomic and environmental sustainability from local to global levels.

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Section: Conceptual Framework Of Telecouplings and Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

Liu¹,

Hull²,

Batistella³

et al. 2013

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585

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“…Similarly, Mérel and Carter (2008) report that tariffs combined with fines on commodities found to be infested outperform tariffs alone, because the additional fines incentivize abatement by exporters. Nonetheless, tariffs addressing invasion risk may be challenged politically by the difficulties in differentiating tariffs aimed at protectionism (i.e., meant to protect domestic producers from cheap imports) from those actually aimed at addressing invasion risk (Margolis et al 2005). Preventing forest invasions also can be achieved by reducing pest loads on imported goods through preborder interventions.…”

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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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“…McAusland and Costello (2004) present a model of contaminated imports and examine the optimal mix of policies, including import tariffs and border inspections. Margolis, Shogren, and Fischer (2005) incorporate political economy into a model of Pigouvian tariffs and a working paper by Margolis and Shogren (2007) includes political economy in a model of Pigouvian tariffs, border inspections, and fines. Merel and Carter (2008) extend the McAusland and Costello (2004) model to allow for a two-part tariff that includes a fine on detected contaminated imports.…”

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“…The first federal quarantine was implemented in 1879 when US customs collectors imposed a ninety day quarantine on imports of European cattle (Kreith and Golino 2003). against foreign pests and diseases from attempts to protect domestic producers from import competition. Distinguishing these two motives requires knowledge of expected damages as well as an assessment of risk preferences and regulatory approaches to risk which often vary across nations and regulatory agencies (Sumner and Tangermann 2002;Margolis, Shogren, and Fischer 2005). In addition, heterogeneity in standards and a lack of systematic data make quantification of the restrictiveness of import standards difficult (Beghin 2008;Beghin and Bureau 2001).…”

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“…Ameden, Cash, and Zilberman (2007) examine exporter response to NIS border enforcement in a model with inspection and fines. 4 Margolis, Shogren, and Fischer (2005) incorporate political economy motives into a model of tariffs and NIS. They show that the marginal expected damage due to NIS is incorporated into the politically optimal tariff rate.…”

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Protectionism versus risk in screening for invasive species

Lawley

2013

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

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The perception that biosecurity import restrictions are used as disguised barriers to trade is widespread. Despite this perception, there has been little empirical analysis distinguishing genuine attempts to protect against introductions of foreign pests and diseases from attempts to distort trade. In this dissertation, I examine the extent to which enforcement of a biosecurity import standard -US agricultural border inspections for non-indigenous species (NIS) -is used as a disguised barrier to trade.I develop a theoretical model of border inspections that incorporates incentives to protect domestic agricultural producers from import competition as well as incentives to protect against NIS damage associated with agricultural imports. The theoretical model is used to specify an econometric model of border inspection that identifies a parameter representing the implied weight the inspection agency places on domestic producer welfare relative to consumer welfare. The structural model further identifies a parameter representing expected NIS damage as implied by the inspection agency's choice of inspection intensity. I estimate the parameters of the model using a dataset that documents the outcome of US agricultural border inspections.I find evidence suggesting that the inspection agency places greater weight on domestic producer welfare relative to consumer welfare, independent of expected NIS damage. Estimates of the implicit weight on domestic producer surplus range from 1 to 1.63. These results suggest that inspection protocols are implemented in a trade distorting manner to the benefit of domestic producers and at the expense of domestic consumers. I also find evidence that border inspections are influenced by terms of trade motives. The evidence that inspections are not implemented in a least trade distorting manner is independent of expected NIS damage. A second outcome of the econometric analysis is an estimate of expected NIS damage: I find that the inspection agency behaves as if expected NIS damage ranges from $0 to more than $0.25 per dollar of inspected imports.

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How trade politics affect invasive species control

Cited by 71 publications

References 11 publications

Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

Economics of invasive species policy and management

Protectionism versus risk in screening for invasive species

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