IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/aare01/125644.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

A Rational Risk Policy for Regulating Plant Diseases and Pests

Author

Listed:
  • Glauber, Joseph W.
  • Narrod, Clare A.

Abstract

This paper examines the Federal quarantine established by USDA in 1996 to prevent the spread of Karnal bunt, a minor disease of wheat. During the early stages of its regulatory strategy, USDA made extensive use of probabilistic risk assessments to determine the efficacy of various quarantine protocols. However, there was less careful consideration given to the costs and benefits of the actions. If risk had been incorporated directly into the cost/benefit analysis, different conclusions would likely have been drawn about the expected impact of the regulations. This paper develops a methodology for combining these two analyses to improve future regulatory decision-making.

Suggested Citation

  • Glauber, Joseph W. & Narrod, Clare A., 2001. "A Rational Risk Policy for Regulating Plant Diseases and Pests," 2001 Conference (45th), January 23-25, 2001, Adelaide, Australia 125644, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aare01:125644
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.125644
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/125644/files/Glauber.PDF
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.125644?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Brennan, John P. & Warham, Elizabeth J., 1990. "Economic Losses from Karnal Bunt of Wheat in Mexico," Economics Working Papers 232450, CIMMYT: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center.
    2. Brennan, John P. & Warham, Elizabeth J. & Byerlee, Derek & Hernandez-Estrada, Julio, 1992. "Evaluating the economic impact of quality-reducing, seed-borne diseases: Lessons from Karnal bunt of wheat," Agricultural Economics, Blackwell, vol. 6(4), pages 345-352, April.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Romano, Eduardo & Thornsbury, Suzanne, 2007. "Economic Evaluation of SPS Regulations: Where Can Progress be Made?," Staff Paper Series 36946, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics.
    2. Anderson, Jock R., 2003. "Risk in rural development: challenges for managers and policy makers," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 75(2-3), pages 161-197.
    3. Olson, Lars J. & Roy, Santanu, 2010. "Dynamic sanitary and phytosanitary trade policy," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 60(1), pages 21-30, July.
    4. Olson, Lars J., 2006. "The Economics of Terrestrial Invasive Species: A Review of the Literature," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 35(1), pages 178-194, April.
    5. Turvey, Calum G. & Mojduszka, Eliza M., 2005. "The Precautionary Principle and the law of unintended consequences," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 30(2), pages 145-161, April.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Brennan, John P. & Thorne, Fiona S. & Kelly, Paul W. & Murray, Gordon M., 2004. "Defining the Costs of an Outbreak of Karnal Bunt of Wheat," 2004 Conference (48th), February 11-13, 2004, Melbourne, Australia 58382, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    2. Cook, David & Proctor, Wendy, 2007. "Assessing the threat of exotic plant pests," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 63(2-3), pages 594-604, August.
    3. Esterhuizen, D. & Esterhuizen, JMC & van Rooyen, CJ, 2002. "Karnal Bunt: The Economic Risk Imposed And The Economic Impact Of Quarantine As Control Measure," Agrekon, Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA), vol. 41(3).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:aare01:125644. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aaresea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.