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Alternate strategies for managing resistance to antibiotics and pesticides

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  • Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

    (Rochester Institute of Technology)

  • Peter Nijkamp

    (Free University)

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How should one manage the problem of resistance to antibiotics and pesticides? The formal modeling of this question is very much in its infancy. Therefore, we construct a dynamic and stochastic model of antibiotic or pesticide use to investigate the relative merits of two kinds of treatment options for overseeing the problem of resistance. In particular, we identify a likelihood function and then, inter alia, we show that this function has an important bearing on how we might best address the problem of resistance.

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  • Amitrajeet A. Batabyal & Peter Nijkamp, 2005. "Alternate strategies for managing resistance to antibiotics and pesticides," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Springer;Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - SEEPS, vol. 7(1), pages 39-51, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:envpol:v:7:y:2005:i:1:d:10.1007_bf03353944
    DOI: 10.1007/BF03353944
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