A review of operations research models in invasive species management: state of the art, challenges, and future directions

IE Büyüktahtakın, RG Haight - Annals of Operations Research, 2018 - Springer
Invasive species are a major threat to the economy, the environment, health, and thus
human well-being. The international community, including the United Nations' Global …

A review of spatial-explicit factors determining spatial distribution of land use/land-use change

Y Mitsuda, S Ito - Landscape and Ecological Engineering, 2011 - Springer
Land development is necessary for human progress, but its impact has resulted in the
degradation of ecosystem services not only locally and regionally, but globally as well …

Economics of invasive species policy and management

RS Epanchin-Niell - Biological invasions, 2017 - Springer
This article examines the use of economic analysis to inform bioinvasion management, with
particular focus on forest resources. Economics is key for understanding invasion processes …

Individual and cooperative management of invasive species in human‐mediated landscapes

RS Epanchin-Niell, JE Wilen - American Journal of Agricultural …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
As a bioinvasion spreads across a landscape from its point of introduction, damages rise
roughly with the square of the distance from the original invasion. It is thus generally …

Production and efficiency of large wildland fire suppression effort: A stochastic frontier analysis

H Katuwal, DE Calkin, MS Hand - Journal of environmental management, 2016 - Elsevier
This study examines the production and efficiency of wildland fire suppression effort. We
estimate the effectiveness of suppression resource inputs to produce controlled fire lines that …

Modeling population dynamics, landscape structure, and management decisions for controlling the spread of invasive plants

P Caplat, S Coutts, YM Buckley - … of the New York Academy of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Invasive plants cause substantial economic and environmental damage throughout the
world. However, eradication of most invasive species is impossible and, in some cases …

Private eradication of mobile public bads

C Costello, N Quérou, A Tomini - European Economic Review, 2017 - Elsevier
We consider analytically the non-cooperative behavior of many private property owners who
each controls the stock of a public bad, which can grow and spread across spatial areas. We …

Using economic instruments to develop effective management of invasive species: insights from a bioeconomic model

SM McDermott, RE Irwin, BW Taylor - Ecological Applications, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Economic growth is recognized as an important factor associated with species invasions.
Consequently, there is increasing need to develop solutions that combine economics and …

Towards the integration of spread and economic impacts of biological invasions in a landscape of learning and imitating agents

LR Carrasco, D Cook, R Baker, A MacLeod… - Ecological …, 2012 - Elsevier
We develop an agent-based model integrated with a spatial stochastic simulation harmful
non-indigenous species (NIS) spread model in which farmers have learning and imitation …

Spatial-dynamic externalities and coordination in invasive species control

Y Liu, C Sims - Resource and Energy Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the coordination problem in transboundary species invasions. When
invasions impact commodity markets and control decisions are made by many producers, a …