This paper reviews statistical considerations in multistage sampling designs for active surveillance of livestock diseases, with particular emphasis on FMD in Thailand. Issues addressed include statistical efficiency concepts, estimator formulae for proportion of protected animals, and sampling...

Cost-benefit analysis on an animal health program involves considerable data collection and analysis. The analysis step involves expressing data in the form of cash flows, and then performing discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis. The output of DCF analysis consists of one of more of the various...

This paper initially outlines the effects diseases can have on livestock production then describes the development of a method to estimate the production loss avoided due to the control of a disease by vaccination. The method involves estimation of individual production loss due to disease and...

Increased demand for livestock products and the regime switch from import substitution to export orientated industrialisation has put pressure on the livestock sector in Thailand to expand production and exports. One of the constraints to expansion is the production and trade effects of diseases...

This paper firstly examines the international beef market, then the concept of economic surplus and the effects of the collection of additional animal health information on the aggregate beef supply curve. The effects of movements in the beef supply curve on domestic producer and consumer...

Visual presentation for the 2012 IAAE triennal conference.

We used the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two wildfire scenarios. Variables such as age, family size, fire frequency, and house value were...

Research on environmental regulation’s effects on economic activity has largely focused on manufacturing, ignoring one of the major polluters in the U.S. – commercial agriculture. As livestock production has become increasingly mobile, regulation has become an important criterion in firm...

This study describes the development of bio economic models examining the economic and water quality impact of various proposed policy options in the Upper Waikato catchment. In the first phase nitrogen emissions are determined for representative farming systems using the Overseer nutrient...

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