Invasive Species
Risk Assessment and Management

This book reviews the latest risk-based techniques to protect national interests from invasive pests and pathogens before, at and within national borders.

Andrew P. Robinson (Edited by), Terry Walshe (Edited by), Mark A. Burgman (Edited by), Mike Nunn (Edited by)

9780521765961, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 June 2017

426 pages, 117 b/w illus.
25.3 x 17.8 x 2.2 cm, 1 kg

With climate change and increasing globalisation of trade and travel, the risks presented by invasive pests and pathogens to natural environments, agriculture and economies have never been greater, and are only increasing with time. Governments world-wide are responding to these increased threats by strengthening quarantine and biosecurity. This book presents a comprehensive review of risk-based techniques that help policy makers and regulators protect national interests from invasive pests and pathogens before, at, and inside national borders. Selected from the research corpus of the Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis at the University of Melbourne, this book provides solutions that reflect scientific rigour coupled with practical, hands-on applications. Focusing on surveillance, stochastic modelling, intelligence gathering, decision making and risk communication, the contents combine the strengths of risk analysts, mathematicians, economists, biologists and statisticians. The book presents tested scientific solutions to the greatest challenges faced by quarantine and biosecurity policy makers and regulators today.

1. The allocation of inspection resources Owen Jones, Andrew Robinson, Martin Shield and Jessica Sibley
2. Tools for designing and evaluating post-border surveillance systems Susan M. Hester, Cindy E. Hauser and John M. Kean
3. Control charts for biosecurity monitoring and surveillance David R. Fox
4. Open-source intelligence gathering and open-analysis intelligence for biosecurity Geoff Grossel, Aidan Lyon and Mike Nunn
5. Predicting distributions of invasive species Jane Elith
6. Mapping risks and impacts of invasive alien species with dynamic simulation models Denys Yemshanov, Frank H. Koch, John W. Coulston and William D. Smith
7. Models for understanding disease dynamics Michael P. Ward, M. Graeme Garner, Joanne M. Potts and Brendan D. Cowled
8. Bayesian networks for import risk assessment Ann E. Nicholson and Kevin B. Korb
9. Getting the message right: tools for improving biosecurity risk communication Jane Gilmour, Ruth Beilin, Tamara Sysak and Marta Hernández-Jover
10. Cost–benefit analysis for biosecurity decisions Tom Kompas, Tuong Nhu Che, Pham Van Ha and Long Chu
11. Valuing protection against invasive species using contingent valuation John Rolfe and Jill Windle
12. Management of invasive species: info-gap perspectives Yakov Ben-Haim
13. Decisions with relative robustness Colin J. Thompson
14. Optimising resource allocation Cindy E. Hauser and Tracy M. Rout
15. Value of information analysis as a decision support tool for biosecurity Michael C. Runge, Tracy M. Rout, Daniel A. Spring and Terry Walshe
16. Declaring eradication of an invasive species Tracy M. Rout
17. Surveillance for detection of pests and diseases – how sure can we be of their absence? Tony Martin
18. Some questions to ask yourself Rob Cannon.

Subject Areas: Conservation of wildlife & habitats [RNKH], Environmental management [RNF], Applied ecology [RNC], Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations [RNB], Animal ecology [PSVS], Industrial applications of scientific research & technological innovation [PDG], Mathematical modelling [PBWH], Probability & statistics [PBT], Risk assessment [GPQD]