Prioritizing Invasive Species Management by Optimizing Production of Ecosystem Service Benefits

Lisa A. Wainger, Dennis M. King, Richard N. Mack, Elizabeth W. Price and Thomas Maslin

No 292019, Contractor and Cooperator Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: This report examined how decisions to invest in invasive species management on public lands could incorporate economic concepts to better gauge the level of social benefits generated and how optimization models could be applied to produce the maximum potential gains in ecosystem services. Findings suggested that management decisions were effectively modeled using GIS-based decision support tools, providing a means to reveal assumptions and allow greater input by the public and scientific community into the decision-making process. The optimization model results suggested that benefits achieved through invasive species treatment might be improved if multiple ecosystem service benefits were considered simultaneously when choosing sites and treatment options rather than choosing options that maximized a particular ecosystem service.

Keywords: Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management; Land Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 138
Date: 2008-07
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.292019

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