@article{07e912445bdc46dbbdff33344df387d0,
title = "Pests as a common property resource: A case study of alfalfa weevil control",
abstract = "The biological interactions of a pest-plant system are incorporated into an optimal pest-control model, using data and estimated parameters specific to the alfalfa weevil. Due to the externalities inherent in situations involving common property resources, different solutions are obtained for private and societal formulations of the optimization problem. In contrast to current pesticide-spraying practices, it is shown that pesticide should be applied early in the season, before any damage can be observed.",
keywords = "Aestivation, Alfalfa weevil, Common property resource, Pesticide",
author = "Uri Regev and Gutierrez, {Andrew P.} and Gershon Feder",
note = "Funding Information: Uri Regev is a senior lecturer in economics at Ben Gurion University, Beersheva, Israel; Andrew P. Gutierrez is an assistant professor of entomology at the University of California. Davis; and Gershon Feder is an economist in the Development Research Center at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Washington. D.C. Giannini Foundation Paper No. 410. The authors are indebted to R. N. Boisvert. J. C. Headley, R. B. Norgaard. and two anonymous referees for helpful comments. and to H. Shalit for assistance in computations. This publication was supported in part by the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency through a grant (NSF GB-347181 BMS 74-04223) to the University of California. The findings, opinions. and recommendations expressed herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the University of California, the National Science Foundation, or the Environmental Protection Agency. I A survey of this literature is beyond the scope of this paper. Most of this literature is pest specific where an attempt is made to understand and model a given species. References on the biology of the Egyptian alfalfa weevil [Hypera brunneipennis (boh.)] can be found in Gutierrez et al.",
year = "1976",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.2307/1238969",
language = "English",
volume = "58",
pages = "186--197",
journal = "American Journal of Agricultural Economics",
issn = "0002-9092",
publisher = "John Wiley & Sons Inc.",
number = "2",
}