Inspecting and monitoring on a restricted budget-where best to look?

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 92, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 163-174

  Cannon, R M ^a  

^a Australian Government Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compliance; Quarantine; Resource allocation; Risk; Surveillance; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349289093     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2009.06.009     Document Type: Note

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