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Managing invasive alien species with professional and hobby farmers: insights from ecological-economic modelling

Ceddia, M. G., Heikkila, J. and Peltola, J. (2009) Managing invasive alien species with professional and hobby farmers: insights from ecological-economic modelling. Ecological Economics, 68 (5). pp. 1366-1374. ISSN 0921-8009

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.09.006

Abstract/Summary

Biosecurity is a great challenge to policy-makers globally. Biosecurity policies aim to either prevent invasions before they occur or to eradicate and/or effectively manage the invasive species and diseases once an invasion has occurred. Such policies have traditionally been directed towards professional producers in natural resource based sectors, including agriculture. Given the wide scope of issues threatened by invasive species and diseases, it is important to account for several types of stakeholders that are involved. We investigate the problem of an invasive insect pest feeding on an agricultural crop with heterogeneous producers: profit-oriented professional farmers and utility-oriented hobby farmers. We start from an ecological-economic model conceptually similar to the one developed by Eiswerth and Johnson [Eiswerth, M.E. and Johnson, W.S., 2002. Managing nonindigenous invasive species: insights from dynamic analysis. Environmental and Resource Economics 23, 319-342.] and extend it in three ways. First, we make explicit the relationship between the invaded state carrying capacity and farmers' planting decisions. Second, we add another producer type into the framework and hence account for the existence of both professional and hobby fanners. Third, we provide a theoretical contribution by discussing two alternative types of equilibria. We also apply the model to an empirical case to extract a number of stylised facts and in particular to assess: a) under which circumstances the invasion is likely to be not controllable; and b) how extending control policies to hobby farmers could affect both types of producers. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Life Sciences > School of Agriculture, Policy and Development
ID Code:8374
Uncontrolled Keywords:Biosecurity, Invasive alien species, Hobby farming, Ecological-economic, modelling, optimal pest-control, management-practices, landscape changes, united-states, agriculture, impact, classification, biosecurity, diseases, denmark

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