The Weedy West: Mobile Nature, Boundaries, and Common Space in the Montana Landscape

Fiege, Mark

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“…In another example, Fiege (2005) describes how the 'transboundary ecology' of weeds in Montana (in the western U.S.) created an ecological commons in the first half of the 20th century that bore no relationship to the extant grid of private property. In response, farmers, scientists, NGOs, and government officials built and strengthened the regional networks necessary to address the problem.…”

Section: Social Capital and Weedsmentioning

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Emerging amenity landscapes: Invasive weeds and land subdivision in rural Australia

2009

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Section: Social Capital and Weedsmentioning

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Emerging amenity landscapes: Invasive weeds and land subdivision in rural Australia

2009

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“…However, motivating residents to effectively manage IS across private lands may be particularly difficult because the failure of one resident to manage IS on his or her property can create a reservoir for invasion, increasing the costs and difficulty of control for surrounding residents (Klepeis et al 2009, Epanchin-Niell et al 2010. IS control across private lands is therefore a transboundary environmental problem, necessitating the coordinated efforts of many landowners (Fiege 2005, Klepeis et al 2009). To achieve widespread reductions in IS populations, residents must be motivated to not only engage in IS control on their own property, but also participate in collective IS control actions, such as teaching neighbors how to engage in control efforts and applying peer pressure (Graham 2013).…”

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Motivating residents to combat invasive species on private lands: social norms and community reciprocity

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Ardoin²,

Wharton³

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“…Results show that cooperative or centralized management of an invasion is generally needed to achieve socially optimal levels. Cooperative control can arise both in practice and in theory as landowners seek to internalize the externalities generated from invasion spread Fiege 2005;Hershdorfer et al 2007;Wilen 2007;Bhat and Huffaker 2007). For example, landowners may pay their neighbors to increase their management efforts, agree to share the costs of control, or simply coordinate their efforts in a beneficial way to minimize spillover effects.…”

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Economics of invasive species policy and management

Epanchin‐Niell

2017

Biol Invasions

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This article examines the use of economic analysis to inform bioinvasion management, with particular focus on forest resources. Economics is key for understanding invasion processes, impacts, and decision-making. Biological invasions are driven by and affect economic activities at multiple scales and stages of an invasion. Bioeconomic modeling seeks to inform how resources can be optimally allocated across invasion management activities-including prevention, surveillance programs for early detection and management, and controlling invasion populations and spread-to minimize the long-term costs and damages. Economic analysis facilitates understanding of decisions by public and private decision-makers, gaps between these, and the design of policies to achieve socially desirable outcomes. Private decisionmakers may undercontrol invasions relative to socially optimal levels, because they generally account for their own costs and benefits of control but less often for broader ecosystem impacts or future spread across the landscape. Economic analysis considers approaches for increasing private invasion management and evaluates feedbacks between ecological and economic systems that can affect policy outcomes. Future research should continue evaluation and design of control strategies across the biosecurity continuum and across species to enhance cost-effectiveness, better incorporate uncertainty into policy design, increase focus on incentives and behavioral tools to influence private behaviors that affect invasion spread, and incorporate invasive species consideration within broader systems-focused science. In addition, challenges in valuing biodiversity and ecosystem service impacts and the costs and effectiveness of control measures are key data gaps. Greater collaboration between decision-makers and researchers will facilitate development and communication of usable economic research.

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The Weedy West: Mobile Nature, Boundaries, and Common Space in the Montana Landscape

Cited by 41 publications

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Emerging amenity landscapes: Invasive weeds and land subdivision in rural Australia

Emerging amenity landscapes: Invasive weeds and land subdivision in rural Australia

Motivating residents to combat invasive species on private lands: social norms and community reciprocity

Economics of invasive species policy and management

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