The importance of seasonal variability and tactical responses to risk on estimating the economic benefits of integrated weed management

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 245-256

  Jones, Randall ^a   Cacho, Oscar ^b   Sinden, Jack ^b  

^a The CRC for Australian Weed Management   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Risk; Simulation; Stochastic dynamic programming; Tactical decision making; Weeds

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; RISK; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION; STOCHASTICITY; WEED CONTROL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33751211215     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2006.00159.x     Document Type: Article

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