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Biological control of the invasive wasp Vespula germanica in Australia: Assessing socio-economic feasibility
Invasive species cause significant damage to economies, human health, biodiversity and society in general. Social insects are among the most successful invaders, often becoming major pests when they establish outside their native range. Once established they can be difficult to eradicate or contain, and classical biological control is usually the only feasible management option.
Successful classical biological control programs must be both technically and economically feasible. A technically feasible program — where a biological control agent establishes, spreads and suppresses the growth and spread of the pest — is a necessary pre-requisite for economic feasibility, where benefits and costs of a biological control program are subsequently assessed. We investigate whether the highly invasive eusocial wasp Vespula germanica (Fabricius) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) could be a candidate for a renewed biological control management program in Australia, where it established almost 60 years ago.
The potential impacts of V. germanica on horticulture, apiculture, tourism, outdoor social activities, and biodiversity are estimated to be AUD 2.6 billion over 50 years, should V. germanica continue to spread unhindered. We found median benefits of AUD145 million to AUD385 million, depending on effectiveness and growth rates of the biocontrol, with non-market benefits exceeding market benefits by 50%.
期刊介绍:
Ecological Economics is concerned with extending and integrating the understanding of the interfaces and interplay between "nature''s household" (ecosystems) and "humanity''s household" (the economy). Ecological economics is an interdisciplinary field defined by a set of concrete problems or challenges related to governing economic activity in a way that promotes human well-being, sustainability, and justice. The journal thus emphasizes critical work that draws on and integrates elements of ecological science, economics, and the analysis of values, behaviors, cultural practices, institutional structures, and societal dynamics. The journal is transdisciplinary in spirit and methodologically open, drawing on the insights offered by a variety of intellectual traditions, and appealing to a diverse readership.
Specific research areas covered include: valuation of natural resources, sustainable agriculture and development, ecologically integrated technology, integrated ecologic-economic modelling at scales from local to regional to global, implications of thermodynamics for economics and ecology, renewable resource management and conservation, critical assessments of the basic assumptions underlying current economic and ecological paradigms and the implications of alternative assumptions, economic and ecological consequences of genetically engineered organisms, and gene pool inventory and management, alternative principles for valuing natural wealth, integrating natural resources and environmental services into national income and wealth accounts, methods of implementing efficient environmental policies, case studies of economic-ecologic conflict or harmony, etc. New issues in this area are rapidly emerging and will find a ready forum in Ecological Economics.