Managing Invasive Species with the Help of Public Participation

Managing invasive species requires a multifaceted approach. Public participation in surveillance, monitoring, and control may help mitigate the harm that nonnative pests can cause to agricultural and natural resources across the United States.

Economics of invasive species policy and management

RFF on the Issues: A Risk-Based Program for Screening for Invasive Species

Acknowledging the challenge in 2011, the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service proposed a risk-based approach for screening imports, rather than inspecting all imports essentially uniformly.

Protecting against Invasive Species: A Risk-Based Approach to Live Plant Inspection

Targeting importers with higher records of infestation can reduce the introduction of invasive species through the international trade of live plants.

Harnessing Enforcement Leverage at the Border to Minimize Biological Risk from International Live Species Trade

Live plant imports are a major pathway for invasive pest introduction. We analyze how a risk-based inspection policy that divides exporters into medium- and high-risk groups affects inspection efficacy for pest exclusion by incentivizing exporters to abate.

RFF on the Issues: Invasive species impacts: timing matters

Tree infestations of the emerald ash borer are happening at “an alarming rate” in DC-area parks. Local officials note that although these beetles, which are now in every county in Maryland, were once a “slow-moving locomotive,” the infestation is now a “speeding bullet.”

International variation in phytosanitary legislation and regulations governing importation of plants for planting

Examining the Benefits of Invasive Species Prevention: The Role of Invader Temporal Characteristics

International trade and travel can enable otherwise innocuous species to wreak havoc in new and novel environments.

Benefits of invasion prevention are constrained by lags and timing of invasion impacts

Independent and Cooperative Management of Invasive Species in Human-Mediated Landscapes.