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Group F: Economic Consequences of Invasive Species
Q1: Critical Scientific Issues
Quantifying and verifying non-market impacts and their value
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Costs of potential loss of rare and endangered species from invasive species
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Understand the non-market impacts of species jumps from one ecosystem to another
Social Issues
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Estimate the impacts of invasive species on values held by diversity of social groups, especially under represented groups. For
example study the environmental justice of invasive species management programs.
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Can we use the volunteer stewardship activities to estimate peoples willingness to pay for higher quality ecosystems?
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BCA of outreach and education
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Understand land use changes that result from IS
Climate Change Issues
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Impacts of Climate change on invasive species establishment and dynamics
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Acknowledging that invasive species can impact the stores of carbon, especially below ground, and in non forested ecosystems
Time Issues
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How do we account for long term changes, and uncertainty in ecosystem processes or attributes resulting from IS?
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How do we display impacts in space in time?
Group F: Economic Consequences of Invasive Species
Q2: Critical Management and Policy Issues
Management Options
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Are there feasible and effective ways we can make polluters pay?
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Clean stock programs, BMP, and incentives for certification programs for packing material and live plants
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How can we manage pathways to reduce risk of introduction (e.g. tort law)?
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Connectivity: Trade offs among management policies, benefits and cost, aquatic, terrestrial applications streams and habit
corridors
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What ways can we induce managers and landowners to use BMPs
Needs for Economic and/or Benefit Costs Analysis
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Invasion controls and ecosystem restoration at regional and local levels
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Better Management Practices, quarantines, trade bans, biocontrols, pathway management, participatory management
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Research management policy; prioritizing research proposals, performing research in-house versus contracting
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Program management, prioritizing different pest management programs, biocontrol programs, etc
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Protection of native fisheries
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Pest surveillance programs, capturing the spatial-dynamic impacts of undetected pests
Group F: Economic Consequences of Invasive Species
Q3: Scientific Data, Models Available to Inform This Topic
• Linking ecological production functions with economic valuation.
For example opportunity for NFS to adopt model like INVEST
• Map NPP changes with IS spread and link to other benefits
• Sustainable Rangeland Roundtable data
Group F: Economic Consequences of Invasive Species
Q4: Issues Likely to Become Important by 2040
• Building capacity – we need more economists!
• Linking ecosytem health, human health, and food security
• Proactive approach to integrating T&E species with invasive
species management
Group F: Economic Consequences of Invasive Species
Q5: How This Topic can Potentially Connect With Other Topics in
Chapter Outline
• Economics should be incorporated in introductory discussion and
impacts to communities
• It should not be incorporated into every section
Group F: Economic Consequences of Invasive Species
Q6: What are the Gaps in Knowledge and Current Research
Cross-boundary Issues
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How are values of services affected by neighbors activities?
Research & Data Issues
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How can we smooth communication between social scientists, economists, and
biologists?
Inability to survey people on national forests. Creates a large gap in availability of
economic data.
Valuation Issues
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Use BCA to identify economic injury level (break even point) of different pests
Better assessment of non-market values
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IS impacts on food and ag sector, better evaluation
Need to include biological invasions in integrated models INVEST
How do we account for uncertainty in decision analysis?
How do we communicate uncertainty to decision makers and public?