Invasive Species: Risk Assessment and ManagementAndrew P. Robinson, Terry Walshe, Mark A. Burgman, Mike Nunn With climate change and increasing globalisation of trade and travel, the risks presented by invasive pests and pathogens to natural environments, agriculture and economies have never been greater, and are only increasing with time. Governments world-wide are responding to these increased threats by strengthening quarantine and biosecurity. This book presents a comprehensive review of risk-based techniques that help policy makers and regulators protect national interests from invasive pests and pathogens before, at, and inside national borders. Selected from the research corpus of the Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis at the University of Melbourne, this book provides solutions that reflect scientific rigour coupled with practical, hands-on applications. Focusing on surveillance, stochastic modelling, intelligence gathering, decision making and risk communication, the contents combine the strengths of risk analysts, mathematicians, economists, biologists and statisticians. The book presents tested scientific solutions to the greatest challenges faced by quarantine and biosecurity policy makers and regulators today. |
Contents
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Tools for Designing and Evaluating PostBorder Surveillance Systems | 17 |
Jane Gilmour | 22 |
Control Charts for Biosecurity Monitoring and Surveillance | 53 |
OpenSource Intelligence Gathering and OpenAnalysis Intelligence | 84 |
Mapping Risks and Impacts of Invasive Alien Species with Dynamic | 130 |
Contributors | 136 |
Models for Understanding Disease Dynamics | 152 |
Waluing Protection against Invasive Species Using Contingent Valuation | 252 |
InfoGap Perspectives | 266 |
Decisions with Relative Robustness | 287 |
Rout | 294 |
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Melbourne Victoria | 301 |
Value of Information Analysis as a Decision Support Tool for Biosecurity | 308 |
Jill Windle | 333 |
Declaring Eradication of an Invasive Species | 334 |
Daniel A Spring | 176 |
Bayesian Networks for Import Risk Assessment | 181 |
Tools for Improving Biosecurity Risk Communication | 206 |
CostBenefit Analysis for Biosecurity Decisions | 229 |
School of Social Sciences University of the Sunshine Coast Sunshine Coast | 248 |
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