An ounce of prevention or a pound of cure: Bioeconomic risk analysis of invasive species

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1508, 2002, Pages 2407-2413

  Leung, Brian ^a   Lodge, David M ^a   Finnoff, David ^b   Shogren, Jason F ^c   Lewis, Mark A ^d   Lamberti, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exotic species; Non indigenous; Risk assessment; Stochastic dynamic programming

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES INVASION; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALIA; DREISSENA; DREISSENA POLYMORPHA;

EID: 0037038989     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2179     Document Type: Article

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