New Approaches to the Economics of Plant Health. 2007. (Wageningen UR Frontis Series, Volume 20). VIII, 208 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

Presents a number of recent scientific developments regarding theeconomic analysis of impacts that harmful organisms have on agricultureand the environment, and of measures to control these organisms. It alsocontains a number of new approaches that integrate economic and epidemiological modelling and economic approaches for measuring theseimpacts. Contents (partly): Robust inspection for invasive species witha limited budget/ On economic-cost minimization versus biological-invasion damage control/ Designing optimal phytosanitary inspection policy: a conceptual framework and an application/ Quantifying risks andeconomic effects using spatial models/ Evaluating the cost-effectivenessof brown-rot control strategies: development of a bio-economic model ofbrown-rot prevalence in the Dutch potato production chain/ etc.