-wide management programme can be expensive as it requires the execution of surveillance activities, exclusion measures and contingency … plans for a rapid eradication response in the case of a pest outbreak. A sound benefit-cost analysis is an essential … starting point to measure gains from research and development into improved methods of surveillance and exclusion. This paper …

exporters of trade restrictions and initiates eradication. These ‘market rules’ are fundamental to the economics of surveillance … the expected optimal investment in surveillance and eradication capacity of the AWM. …Regional management of endemic pests of trade significance typically requires a surveillance system, border controls …

-side impacts (lower pest damage and decreased ongoing control costs) exceed the compliance monitoring and eradication costs. Thus …, eradication may be optimal without certification. Certification is more likely for regions facing costly treatment requirements …

Like the human immune system, a biosecurity system is a constellation of responses to external attacks comprising of … responses are made, this paper discusses institutional changes that may facilitate an adaptive approach to biosecurity policies …

and estimable Key to this was how processors might respond during FMD eradication and how importing countries might … respond once New Zealand becomes FMD free again. Government expenditure for FMD eradication and related livestock compensation …

-excludability, apply directly to animal disease border measures and eradication services, with some caveats. It is also argued that public … policy should assess disease control and eradication on grounds of biology, national economic interests, and international …

the models to the case study of Colorado potato beetle in the UK. The results demonstrate that eradication is optimal for … to smaller total overall costs of invasion and makes eradication optimal for larger sizes of initial invasion. In many …