Conflicts of Interest in Environmental Management: Estimating the Costs and Benefits of a Tree Invasion

By M. D. Wit, D. Crookes, B. V. van Wilgen. Biological Invasions, 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Citations in the corpus

Economic evaluation of biological invasions—a survey (2005, methodology): “Wit et al. (2001) measure the value of fresh water loss (indirect-use value) caused by invasive species via the value of alternatively produced crops.”
Impacts of invasive Australian acacias: implications for management and restoration (2011, background): “They have a range of ecological and socio-economic impacts (Le Maitre et al., 2000; De Wit et al., 2001; Marchante et al., 2003, 2008a,b; Gaertner et al., 2009; Hellmann et al., 2011; Marchante, 2011; Rascher et al., 2011).”
Reproductive biology of Australian acacias: important mediator of invasiveness? (2011, background): “Similarly in South Africa, rivers and soil movement aid in the dispersal of acacias that invade riparian areas, such as A. mearnsii (de Wit et al., 2001).”
Assessing the Effects of Invasive Alien Species on Rural Livelihoods: Case Examples and a Framework from South Africa (2007, background): “McDonald et al., 1986), sometimes paired with an economic one (e.g. de Wit et al., 2001; Pimental, 2002).”
Costs and benefits of biological control of invasive alien plants: case studies from South Africa (2004, methodology): “To correct for this, we assumed that the term I in Equation (3) was 5%, meaning that only 5% of additional streamflow would have economic significance.(17)”
Incorporating uncertainty and social values in managing invasive alien species: a deliberative multi-criteria evaluation approach (2011, background): “This multi-dimensionality is well expressed on the account of the black wattle (Acacia mearnsii) invasion in South Africa (de Wit et al. 2001).”
A native at home and abroad: the history, politics, ethics and aesthetics of acacias (2011, background): “The levels of damage, in the form of lost ecosystem services and biodiversity, probably already far exceed the value of the wattle industry (De Wit et al., 2001; De Lange & Van Wilgen, 2010).”
An assessment of the effectiveness of a large, national-scale invasive alien plant control strategy in South Africa (2012, unknown): “Studies have shown that economic benefits are often exceeded by negative impacts (De Wit et al., 2001; Hoffmann et al., 2011; R. Wise, unpublished data), and that placing constraints on control options (such as biological control) to protect benefits would not deliver the best results in overall…”
Conflicting values: ecosystem services and invasive tree management (2013, background): “Robinia, Tamarix a Citations: Acacia (de Wit et al. 2001), Casuarina (Thaman et al. 2000), Eucalyptus (Rejmánek and Richardson 2011), Falcataria (Mascaro et al. 2012), Pinus (Dickie et al. 2011), Prosopis (Wise et al. 2012) Conflicting values 707 Table 2 Examples where invasive tree removal has…”
Economic evaluation of the successful biological control of Azolla filiculoides in South Africa (2003, unknown): “When both on-site and off-site (market and nonmarket) values, most often external to the land-owner, are included, benefit–cost ratios can be much higher (e.g., De Wit et al., 2001; Van Wilgen et al., 2003).”
Biological Invasions in South Africa: An Overview (2020, background): “…were all either focussed on a relatively small area (e.g. Hosking and du Preez 2004 for selected project sites), or on a single species [e.g. De Wit et al. 2001 for Black Wattle (Acacia mearnsii); McConnachie et al. 2003 for Red Water Fern (Azolla filiculoides); and Wise et al. 2012 for…”
An economic assessment of the contribution of biological control to the management of invasive alien plants and to the protection of ecosystem services in South Africa (2010, background): “Numerous studies (Buhlea et al. 2005; Culliney 2005; De Wit et al. 2001; Jarvis et al. 2006; Law 2007; McConnachie et al. 2003; Pimentel et al. 2005; Pringle and Heunis 2006; van Wilgen et al. 2000, 2001, 2004; van Wyk and van Wilgen 2002) have discussed or assessed the economic returns on…”
Acacia exchanges: Wattles, thorn trees, and the study of plant movements (2008, background): “Although some poor rural communities make use of the wattles for poles and fuel (de Neergaard et al. 2005), the official view is that outside plantations these are alien invasive species threatening scarce water resources and biodiversity (de Wit et al. 2001).”