Economically optimal timing for crop disease control under uncertainty: An options approach

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 7, Issue 51, 2010, Pages 1421-1428

  Mbah, Martial L Ndeffo ^a   Forster, Graeme A ^a   Wesseler, Justus H ^b   Gilligan, Christopher A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Density dependence; Disease control; Optimal timing; Real options; Stochastic epidemics

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASES; OPTIMIZATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

CONTROL MEASURES; DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ECONOMIC DAMAGES; INTRINSIC RATE OF INCREASE; KEY ISSUES; LOGISTIC GROWTH; OPTIMAL TIMING; PEST INFESTATION; REAL OPTIONS; RISK AND UNCERTAINTY; STANDARD MODEL; STOCHASTIC EPIDEMICS;

DISEASE CONTROL;

AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROP; DISEASE CONTROL; FUNGICIDE APPLICATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; NET PRESENT VALUE ANALYSIS; PLANT DISEASE CONTROL; POPULATION DENSITY DEPENDENCE; STANDARD; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS;

EID: 77957160971     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2010.0056     Document Type: Article

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