Oscar N. Villalta
Cooperative Research Centre
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PLOS ONE | 2012
David C. Cook; Shuang Liu; Jacqueline Edwards; Oscar N. Villalta; Jean-Philippe Aurambout; Darren J. Kriticos; A. Drenth; Paul J. De Barro
Benefit cost analysis is a tried and tested analytical framework that can clearly communicate likely net changes in producer welfare from investment decisions to diverse stakeholder audiences. However, in a plant biosecurity context, it is often difficult to predict policy benefits over time due to complex biophysical interactions between invasive species, their hosts, and the environment. In this paper, we demonstrate how a break-even style benefit cost analysis remains highly relevant to biosecurity decision-makers using the example of banana bunchy top virus, a plant pathogen targeted for eradication from banana growing regions of Australia. We develop an analytical approach using a stratified diffusion spread model to simulate the likely benefits of exclusion of this virus from commercial banana plantations over time relative to a nil management scenario in which no surveillance or containment activities take place. Using Monte Carlo simulation to generate a range of possible future incursion scenarios, we predict the exclusion benefits of the disease will avoid Aus
Food Security | 2016
David C. Cook; Jean-Philippe Aurambout; Oscar N. Villalta; Shuang Liu; Jacqueline Edwards; Savi Maharaj
15.9-27.0 million in annual losses for the banana industry. For these exclusion benefits to be reduced to zero would require a bunchy top re-establishment event in commercial banana plantations three years in every four. Sensitivity analysis indicates that exclusion benefits can be greatly enhanced through improvements in disease surveillance and incursion response.
Australasian Plant Pathology | 2015
Simone Kreidl; Jacqueline Edwards; Oscar N. Villalta
Loss of area freedom from invasive alien species can have serious food security implications and place huge responsibility on incursion response managers. They make critical decisions despite profound uncertainty surrounding invasion ecology, surveillance and control technology effectiveness and human behaviour. We propose a spatially-explicit model that can aid response managers in devising and testing management strategies in a virtual world where the costs of failure are negligible. We apply the model in a group-based decision setting in which participants practise responding to fictional disease incursions in a pome fruit production area in Australia. Using the model, the response management group was able to develop mutually satisfactory rules of thumb for the use of quarantine and destruction zones and for when to withdraw resources from eradication efforts.
Crop Protection | 2013
David C. Cook; Shuang Liu; Jacqueline Edwards; Oscar N. Villalta; Jean-Philippe Aurambout; Darren J. Kriticos; A. Drenth; Paul J. De Barro
Ecological Economics | 2015
Shuang Liu; Jean-Philippe Aurambout; Oscar N. Villalta; Jacqueline Edwards; Paul J. De Barro; Darren J. Kriticos; David C. Cook
Australasian Plant Disease Notes | 2014
Scott W. Mattner; Oscar N. Villalta; Denise Wite; Ian Porter; Tony Arioli
Advancing risk assessment models to address climate change, economics and uncertainty. IPRMW Sixth Annual Workshop, Tromsø, Norway, 23-26 July 2012. | 2013
David C. Cook; Shuang Liu; Jacqueline Edwards; Oscar N. Villalta; Jean‑Philippe Aurambout; Darren J. Kriticos; A. Drenth; Paul J. De Barro
Archive | 2002
Ian Porter; Hoong Pung; Oscar N. Villalta; Rosa Crnov; Alison Stewart; Agriculture Victoria
Científica | 2018
Valdir Lourenço; Bruno Sérgio Vieira; Everaldo Antônio Lopes; Oscar N. Villalta
Australasian Plant Pathology | 2018
Oscar N. Villalta; M. Mebalds; Jacqueline Edwards
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