New Approaches to the Economics of Plant Health

- Preface:

1. New approaches to the economics of plant health: general introduction.-Efficient inspection policies:

2. Robust inspection for invasive species with a limited budget

3. On economic-cost minimization versus biological-invasion damage control

4. Designing optimal phytosanitary inspection policy: a conceptual framework and an application

- Quantifying risks and economic effects using spatial models:

5. Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of brown-rot control strategies: development of a bio-economic model of brown-rot prevalence in the Dutch potato production chain

6. Risk and indemnification models of infectious plant diseases:the case of Asiatic citrus canker in Florida

7. Hurricanes and invasive species: the economics and spatial dynamics of eradication policies

- Methods for modelling non-monetary impacts of phytosanitary policies:

8. Estimating the economic value of trees at risk from a quarantine disease

9. Multi-Criteria Decision Making to evaluate quarantine disease control strategies

- Costs and benefits of phytosanitary measures:

10. Phytosanitary measures under uncertainty: a cost-benefit analysis of the Colorado potato beetle in Finland

11. The benefits and costs of specific phytosanitary campaigns in the UK: examples that illustrate how science and economics support policy decision making

- Economic and biophysical aspects of plant health policies:

12. Model frameworks for strategic economic management of invasive species

13. Analysis of environmental risks: how to assess and manage risks of plants as pests