The economics of livestock disease insurance : concepts, issues and international case studies /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: Livestock insurance > Case studies.; Livestock > Case studies. > Diseases; Livestock > Diseases.; Livestock insurance.; Agricultural Economics.; Veterinary Economics, (New March 2000); Policy and Planning.; Investment, Finance and Credit.; Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Animals, (New March 2000); Agricultural policy.; Animal diseases.; Animal insurance.; Case studies.; Compensation.; Disease control.; Government policy.; Incentives.; Livestock.; Electronic books.
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This book on the economics of livestock disease insurance is organized into three major parts. Following an introduction (chapters 1-2), part II (chapters 3-8) includes a variety of discussions about what is known about how to build a livestock insurance programme. It begins with a look at the conce...

Table of Contents:

• Economics of Livestock Disease Insurance : Principles, Issues and Worldwide Cases / Dana L. Hoag, Dawn D. Thilmany and Stephen R. Koontz
• The Role of USDA-APHIS in Livestock Disease Management within the USA / Jennifer L. Grannis and Megan L. Bruch
• The Role of Public Policy in Controlling Animal Disease / Daniel A. Sumner, José E. Bervejillo and Lovell Jarvis
• Incentive Compatibility in Risk Management of Contagious Livestock Diseases / Ben M. Gramig, Barry J. Barnett, Jerry R. Skees and J. Roy Black
• Insurability Conditions and Livestock Disease Insurance / Saleem Shaik, Barry J. Barnett, Keith H. Coble, J. Corey Miller and Terry Hanson
• Issues Associated with US Livestock Disease Compensation in the 21st Century / Stephen Ott
• Conceptual Issues in Livestock Insurance / Calum Turvey
• Data Requirements for Domestic Livestock Insurance / John W. Green, James L. Driscoll and Megan L. Bruch
• Public and Private Schemes Indemnifying Epidemic Livestock Losses in the European Union : a Review / Marcel A.P.M. van Asseldonk, Miranda P.M. Meuwissen, Ruud B.M. Huirne and Eckhardt Wilkens
• Designing Epidemic Livestock Insurance / Miranda P.M. Meuwissen, Marcel A.P.M. van Asseldonk, Jerry R. Skees and Ruud B.M. Huirne
• The German System of Compensating Animal Keepers in Cases of Outbreaks of Animal Diseases / H.-J. Bätza
• Managing the Risks and Impacts of Animal Diseases in the Australian Livestock Sector / G.B. Neumann and R.C. Keogh
• Livestock Industry Insurance : Canada / Bruce Stephen and Terri Epps
• The Current State of US Federally Supported Livestock Insurance / Chad Hart
• Livestock Disease Eradication Programmes and Farm Incentives : the Case of Bovine Tuberculosis / Christopher A. Wolf
• Economic Impacts of Eradicating Scrapie, Ovine Progressive Pneumonia and Johne's Disease on US Sheep, Lamb, Sheep Meat and Lamb Meat Markets / Ann Hillberg Seitzinger, Philip L. Paarlberg and John G. Lee
• Understanding Broader Economic Effects of Livestock Insurance and Health Management : Impacts of Disease Outbreak on Allied Industries / James Pritchett, Dawn Thilmany and Kamina Johnson
• US Livestock Industry's Views on Livestock Disease Insurance / Jennifer L. Grannis, John W. Green and Megan L. Bruch
• Modelling the Impact of Compulsory Foot and Mouth Disease Insurance in the European Union / Torbjörn Jansson, Bo Norell and Ewa Rabinowicz
• Investigating the Feasibility of Livestock Disease Insurance : a Case Study in US Aquaculture / Keith H. Coble, Terry R. Hanson, Stephen H. Sempier, Saleem Shaik and J. Corey Miller.