Plant pest risk analysis : concepts and application /

• Other Authors: Devorshak, Christina, 1969- (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
• Subjects: Plants, Protection of.; Risk assessment.; Insect pests > Control.; Agricultural pests > Control.; Information and Documentation.; Laws and Regulations.; Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Weeds and Noxious Plants.; Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Pathogen, Pest, Parasite and Weed Management (General); Biological Control.; Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Plants.; Beneficial organisms.; Economic analysis.; Geographical information systems.; Invasive alien species.; Pest control.; Plant pests.; Reviews.; Transgenic animals.; Transgenic plants.; Weeds.; Introduced species.; Invasive species.; Electronic books.
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This book has 20 chapters divided into 5 sections providing information on the background and history of pest risk analysis and key components of pest risk analysis and their applications in regulatory plant protection. The use of qualitative and quantitative methods, economic analysis and geographi...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Basic Concepts in Risk Analysis
• History of Plant Quarantine and the Use of Risk Analysis
• International Legal and Regulatory Framework for Risk Analysis
• Terminology Used in Pest Risk Analysis
• Information and Pest Risk Analysis
• Economic Analysis in Pest Risk Analysis
• Types and Applications of Pest Risk Analysis
• Qualitative Methods
• Quantitative Methods
• Pest Risk Assessment
• Mapping, Climate and Geographic Information for Risk Analysis
• Pest Risk Management Theory and Background
• Pest Risk Management Applications and Practice
• Risk Communication in Pest Risk Analysis
• Uncertainty in Pest Risk Analysis
• Special Applications of Pest Risk Analysis: Beneficial Organisms
• Special Applications of Pest Risk Analysis: Weed Risk Assessment
• Appropriate Level of Protection, Precaution and Jurisprudence
• Invasive Species and Living Modified Organisms.