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| Horie, Tetsuya; Homans, Frances R.. |
| When it comes to invasive species management, economists have focused on the trade-off between prevention of potential invasions and management of established populations. The intermediate step-detection of established populations on the landscape so that management can commence-has only recently received attention in the economics literature. A recent paper (Mehta et al., 2007) explores how biological and economic parameters affect optimal detection spending, recognizing that greater expenditures on detection can lead to smaller and more manageable population sizes upon detection because populations are discovered early. We build upon this framework by considering the optimal spatial allocation of detection effort when it is impossible to stop the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9695 |
