caa a22 4500 44585538X CHVBK 20180317145426.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10640-011-9468-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10640-011-9468-8 Estimating the Costs of Protecting Native Species from Invasive Animal Pests in New South Wales, Australia [Elektronische Daten] [Jack Sinden, Wendy Gong, Randall Jones] Invasive animal pests reduce crop and livestock output, require management and control measures, and threaten native plants, animals and their habitat. The agricultural and management costs are often directly measurable. But the costs to protect threatened native plants and animals are harder to assess. The Rural Lands Protection Boards were the government agency in New South Wales that managed invasive animals. An analysis of their decisions provided the opportunity to estimate the costs of protecting native species. The number of native plants and animals threatened by invasive pests was modelled against the expenditure, area, pest abundance, climate and location of 38 Board districts. There was a strong negative relationship between the number of threatened native species and Board expenditure. This relationship was interpreted to estimate the marginal cost of protecting a threatened native species, the downward shift in the supply curve necessary to protect all threatened native species, and the gains from the shift in the form of cost savings in the continued protection of non-threatened native species. These results value some of the costs that invasive animal pests impose on the environment. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Biodiversity protection nationallicence Cost estimation nationallicence Economic surplus nationallicence Invasive animals nationallicence Pests nationallicence Valuation nationallicence Sinden Jack School of Business, Economics and Public Policy, University of New England, 2350, Armidale, NSW, Australia aut Gong Wendy National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, 2052, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut Jones Randall Asian Development Bank, Manila, The Philippines aut Environmental and Resource Economics Springer Netherlands 50/2(2011-10-01), 203-226 0924-6460 50:2<203 2011 50 10640 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-011-9468-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-011-9468-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sinden Jack School of Business, Economics and Public Policy, University of New England, 2350, Armidale, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gong Wendy National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, 2052, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jones Randall Asian Development Bank, Manila, The Philippines aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental and Resource Economics Springer Netherlands 50/2(2011-10-01), 203-226 0924-6460 50:2<203 2011 50 10640 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer