Joint Management of Wildlife and Livestock Disease

We analyze a bioeconomic model of a multiple-host disease problem involving wildlife and livestock. The social planner's choices include targeted (i.e., infectious versus healthy) livestock harvests, non-targeted wildlife harvests, environmental habitat variables, and on-farm biosecurity to pre...

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Published in:Environmental & resource economics 2008-09, Vol.41 (1), p.47-70
Main Authors: Horan, Richard D, Wolf, Christopher A, Fenichel, Eli P, Mathews, Kenneth H. Jr
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal diseases
Animal populations
bioeconomic models
Bioeconomics
Biosecurity
bovine tuberculosis
Cattle
Deer
Disease control
Disease management
disease reservoirs
Disease transmission
Diseases
Economic models
Economic Policy
Economics
Economics and Finance
Ecosystem management
Ecosystems
Environmental Economics
Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice
Environmental Management
Habitat
Harvest
Harvesting
Immunization
Infectious disease
Infectious diseases
Livestock
Michigan
Mycobacterium
Natural resources
Odocoileus virginianus
Optimal control
Pathogens
Population density
Q1
Reservoirs
Statistical analysis
Tuberculosis
U.S.A
Vaccines
White-tailed deer
Wildlife
wildlife diseases
Wildlife management
wildlife-livestock relations
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Summary:We analyze a bioeconomic model of a multiple-host disease problem involving wildlife and livestock. The social planner's choices include targeted (i.e., infectious versus healthy) livestock harvests, non-targeted wildlife harvests, environmental habitat variables, and on-farm biosecurity to prevent cross-species contacts. The model is applied to bovine tuberculosis among Michigan white-tailed deer and cattle. We find optimal controls may target the livestock sector more stringently when the livestock sector exhibits low value relative to the wildlife sector. This is in contrast with the conventional wisdom on the issue that controls should primarily target wildlife species that serve as disease reservoirs.
ISSN:0924-6460
1573-1502
DOI:10.1007/s10640-007-9180-x