While pest management decisions are made at the farm level, a distinctive characteristic of the pest management of invasive species is its public-good nature. Here, we examine the challenges that a vector-disease pathosystem such as Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Liviidae)—citrus greening, creates for the adoption of prevention and collective management practices from an economic perspective. Those economic challenges originate from the choices and behavior of individual growers, which can impact not only their own payoff but also the choices, behavior and payoffs of other growers; influencing, for example, the spread of the disease, the vector population dynamics, and the adoption of proposed scientific solutions. While for most people the economics of invasive species is limited to calculating damage or control costs, economics is more than that. Economics can provide insights on the interactions between human behavior and natural processes, enabling a better understanding of the rationale of individual growers’ choices, which are key for the design and implementation of effective public policies to deal with invasive pests and diseases.

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柑橘绿化的经济挑战：以佛罗里达州为例

尽管有害生物管理决定是在农场一级做出的，但入侵物种有害生物管理的显着特征是其公益性质。在这里，我们研究了诸如病媒Diaphorina citri的病媒传染病的挑战Kuwayama（半翅目：蜥蜴科）—柑橘绿化从经济的角度出发，为采用预防和集体管理作法创造了条件。这些经济挑战源自个体种植者的选择和行为，不仅会影响他们自己的收益，而且还会影响其他种植者的选择，行为和收益。例如影响疾病的传播，病媒种群动态以及采用建议的科学解决方案。对于大多数人而言，入侵物种的经济学仅限于计算破坏或控制成本，而经济学远不止于此。经济学可以提供有关人类行为与自然过程之间相互作用的见解，从而可以更好地理解个体种植者的选择依据，