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Battling resistance to antibiotics and pesticides : an economic approach / edited by Ramanan Laxminarayan

Published
Washington, DC : Resources for the Future, [2003]
Copyright Date
©2003
Physical Description
1 online resource (xix, 377 pages) : illustrations, maps
Additional Creators
Laxminarayan, Ramanan
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English.
Contents
Introduction: On the Economics of Resistance / Ramanan Laxminarayan -- ISSUES OF OPTIMAL MANAGEMENT OF RESISTANCE -- Dynamics of Antibiotic Use: Ecological versus Interventionist Strategies To Manage Resistance to Antibiotics / James E. Wilen and Siwa Msangi -- Using Antibiotics When Resistance Is Renewable / Robert Rowthorn and Gardner M. Brown -- Value of Treatment Heterogeneity for Infectious Diseases / Ramanan Laxminarayan and Martin L. Weitzman -- Commentary: To Take or Not To Take the Antibiotic? / James N. Sanchirico -- Commentary: Same Infection, Same Time, Same Antibiotic? / Stephen W. Salant -- Pest Mobility, Market Share, and the Efficacy of Refuge Requirements for Resistance Management / Silvia Secchi and Bruce A. Babcock -- Commentary: Need for Direct Collaboration between Economists and Biologists / Fred Gould -- THE IMPACT OF RESISTANCE -- The Impact of Resistance on Antibiotic Demand in Patients with Ear Infections / David H. Howard and Kimberly J. Rask -- Commentary: Measuring the Cost of Resistance / Ramanan Laxminarayan -- What Can We Learn from the Economics of Pesticides? Impact Assessment of Genetically Modified Plants / Hermann Waibel, Jan C Zadoks, and Gerd Fleischer -- Commentary: The Role of Ecosystem Complexity in Genetically Modified Organisms / Karl Seeley -- Elements of Economic Resistance Management Strategies-Empirical Evidence from Case Studies in Germany / Gerd Fleischer and Hermann Waibel -- Commentary: Can We Justify Resistance Management Strategies for Conventional Pesticides? / Fred Gould -- Pesticide Resistance, the Precautionary Principle, and the Regulation of Bt Corn: Real Option and Rational Option Approaches to Decisionmaking / Benoit Morel, R. Scott Farrow, Felicia Wu, and Elizabeth A. Casman -- Resistance Economics of Transgenic Crops under Uncertainty: A Real Option Approach / Justus Wesseler -- Commentary: Economics of Transgenic Crops and Pest Resistance: An Epidemiological Perspective / Christopher A. Gilligan -- THE BEHAVIOR OF FIRMS -- An Economic Model of a Genetic Resistance Commons: Effects of Market Structure Applied to Biotechnology in Agriculture / Douglas Noonan -- Commentary: Does the Monopolist Care about Resistance? / Carolyn Fischer -- The Interaction of Dynamic Problems and Dynamic Policies: Some Economics of Biotechnology / Timo Goeschl and Timothy Swanson -- Industrial Organization and Institutional Considerations in Agricultural Pest Resistance Management / Jennifer Alix and David Zilberman -- Commentary: Strategic Issues in Agricultural Pest Resistance Management / R. David Simpson.
Summary
The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics, and pests to pesticides, threatens to undo some of the most remarkable advances made in public health and agriculture during the past century. Though the potential consequences of increased antibiotic and pesticide resistance are far reaching, regulatory efforts to address the problem are at a very early stage. Battling Resistance to Antibiotics and Pesticides moves such discussions forward by presenting cutting edge research and the first comprehensive application of economic tools to analyze how antibiotics and pesticides should be used t.
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9781936331550 (electronic bk.)
1936331551 (electronic bk.)
9781136524318 (e-book ; PDF)
1136524312
9781136524264 (e-book ; Mobi)
1136524266
9781136524301 (e-book ; ePub)
1136524304
1280686901
9781280686900
9786613663849
6613663840
1891853511
9781891853517
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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