Establishing a benefits transfer database for biosecurity decision making an indigenous biodiversity

Brian A. Bell, Charlotte Cudby and Michael Yap

No 47621, 2009 Conference (53rd), February 11-13, 2009, Cairns, Australia from Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society

Abstract: An imbalance of quantitative information on pest and disease impacts hampers biosecurity decision-making; there is relatively good information about impacts on industry, but relatively poor information about how society values the impacts on indigenous biodiversity. A benefits transfer process based on a database of choice experiments could help to redress this imbalance. This paper: briefly reviews four choice experiments that will be the foundation of a database; reviews benefit transfer literature; and sets out framework ideas for a Decision Support System (DSS), which will incorporate biodiversity values via a process for benefit transfer to facilitate more informed biosecurity decisions.

Keywords: Benefit transfer; database; biosecurity; biodiversity; decision support system; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009
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