Invasive Species : Risk Assessment and Management (Paperback)

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 Hernandez-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.