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| Breukers, A.; Mourits, M.; Van der Werf, W.; Kettenis, D.L.; Oude Lansink, A.G.J.M.. |
| Quarantine diseases comprise a distinct class of plant diseases. In contrast to other plant diseases, direct losses through crop damage are often limited. Yet, quarantine diseases may have serious economic consequences for a country as they threaten the country’s export of affected crops. In particular for this category of diseases, it is important to design a control strategy that is optimal from an epidemiological as well as an economic point of view. This chapter presents the development of a bioeconomic model to evaluate control strategies in terms of their cost-effectiveness, specified for brown rot in the Dutch potato production chain. The conceptual model consists of two modules: an epidemiological module, which is a stochastic, spatially explicit... |
| Tipo: Conference proceedings |
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| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://library.wur.nl/ojs/index.php/frontis/article/view/1281 |
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