Valuing Pest Susceptibility to Control

Insect Resistance Management: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 25-53

  Mitchell, Paul D ^a   Onstad, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Common property resources; Discount rate; Externalities; Open access resources; Property rights; Public goods; Risk; Time horizon; Use values

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902568603     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-396955-2.00002-3     Document Type: Chapter

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