Damage costs from invasive species exceed management expenditure in nations experiencing lower economic activity
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International audience ; While data on biological invasions and their economic toll are increasingly available, drivers of susceptibility to damage and cost-effectiveness of management in reducing long-term costs remain poorly understood. We used data describing the damage costs of, and management expenditure on, invasive species among 56 nations between 2000 and 2020 reported in the InvaCost database to test the overarching hypothesis that higher-income nations and those with higher trade volume have a higher efficiency to limit the damage incurred by invasive species by spending relatively more on management. We also tested whether nations with (i) more corruption have a reduced capacity to manage invasive species, leading to relatively higher damage costs, (ii) more educated citizens or greater technological and scientific output allow for improved incentives and ability to manage invasive species, thereby reducing relative damage costs, and (iii) economies based on higher primary resource dependencies (e.g., agriculture) are at greater risk of incurring high costs of invasive species, and so all other conditions being equal, have higher relative damage costs compared to management expenditure. By focusing on the ratio between damage costs and management expenditure, we analyse the willingness of countries to invest in management as a function of the extent of the damage suffered. We show that economic activity, measured by the volume of trade, is the main determinant of this ratio — the greater the volume, the smaller the ratio. We also found a higher rate of increase in the damage:management ratio as a country's proportion of total land area devoted to agriculture increased, suggesting that a higher economic dependency on agriculture predisposes a country to greater damage costs from invasive species over time. When considering the proportion of total costs identified as damage-related, results indicated that higher government investment in education produced higher proportional damage, and lower corruption ...
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Damage costs from invasive species exceed management expenditure in nations experiencing lower economic activity
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Bradshaw, Corey, J A ; Hulme, Philip, E ; Hudgins, Emma, J ; Leung, Brian ; Kourantidou, Melina ; Courtois, Pierre ; Turbelin, Anna, J ; Mcdermott, Shana, M ; Lee, Katherine ; Ahmed, Danish, A ; Latombe, Guillaume ; Bang, Alok ; Bodey, Thomas, W ; Haubrock, Phillip, J ; Saltré, Frédérik ; Courchamp, Franck ; Flinders University Adelaide, Australia ; Lincoln University Nouvelle-Zélande ; McGill University = Université McGill Montréal, Canada ; Aménagement des Usages des Ressources et des Espaces marins et littoraux - Centre de droit et d'économie de la mer (AMURE) ; Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM) ; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) ; Centre d'Economie de l'Environnement - Montpellier (CEE-M) ; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro Montpellier ; Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Université de Montpellier (UM) ; Ecologie Systématique et Evolution (ESE) ; AgroParisTech-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) ; University, Trinity ; University of Idaho Moscow, USA ; Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST) ; University of Vienna Vienna ; Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research ; University of Edinburgh (Edin.) ; Azim Premji University ; University of Aberdeen ; Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters University of South Bohemia ; University of South Bohemia ; Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt ; Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research - Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung ; Leibniz Association-Leibniz Association ; Paris-Saclay, Université ; ANR-14-CE02-0021,InvaCosts,Insectes envahissants et leurs couts pour la biodiversité, l'économie et la santé humaine(2014) |
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Zeitschrift: | ISSN: 0921-8009, 2024 |
Veröffentlichung: | HAL CCSD ; Elsevier, 2024 |
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DOI: | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108166 |
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