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The Economics of Controlling Insect‐Transmitted Plant Diseases
Author(s) -
Brown Cheryl,
Lynch Lori,
Zilberman David
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8276.00297
Subject(s) - pest analysis , transmission (telecommunications) , insect pest , population , pest control , plant disease , microbiology and biotechnology , business , biology , ecology , computer science , agronomy , environmental health , telecommunications , botany , medicine
A framework is developed to analyze a spatially dependent economically significant pest problem emanating from a source and spreading via a carrier such as an insect. Transmission and/or source control to combat the pest or disease problem are explored. Alternative assumptions about the effectiveness of transmission control and the feasibility and costs, both social and private, of reduction of the pest population at the source are examined in an application of the model to controlling Pierce's disease in California wine grapes.