Background The limited use of biosecurity practices by many in the farming community is likely to be due to a range of factors; further understanding of this issue is required. In this …
Peri-urban landscapes are some of the world's most vulnerable areas. Although they are often thought of simply as land awaiting development, these landscapes retain important …
When governments take actions under their police powers to prevent incursions of diseases, they may damage or destroy private property and a question arises of who should pay for …
M Nöremark, A Lindberg, I Vågsholm… - Preventive veterinary …, 2009 - Elsevier
Reaching farmers with information is important when eradicating outbreaks of contagious diseases, the actions they take related to contacts and biosecurity, as well as early …
Given the significant negative impact of livestock disease outbreaks on animal and public health, preventing disease spread through biosecurity practices is important. In this study …
C Phillips - Environment and Planning A, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper, informed by more-than-human and biosecurity literatures, I attend a neglected nonhuman considered a serious agricultural pest: the fruit fly. In addressing what it takes to …
M Kobayashi, T Melkonyan - Journal of Agricultural and Resource …, 2011 - JSTOR
We model a game between two players taking biosecurity actions and characterize the Nash equilibria and their properties for the cases of strategic complements and substitutes …
Biosecurity is a great challenge to policy-makers globally. Biosecurity policies aim to either prevent invasions before they occur or to eradicate and/or effectively manage the invasive …