| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 274 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
1. Economics of livestock disease insurance -- principles, issues and worldwide cases / Dana L. Hoag, Dawn D. Thilmany and Stephen R. Koontz -- 2. role of USDA-APHIS in livestock disease management within the USA / Jennifer L. Grannis and Megan L. Bruch -- 3. role of public policy in controlling animal disease / Daniel A. Sumner, Jose E. Bervejillo and Lovell Jarvis -- 4. Incentive compatibility in risk management of contagious livestock diseases / Ben M. Gramig, Barry J. Barnett, Jerry R. Skees and J. Roy Black -- 5. Insurability conditions and livestock disease insurance / Saleem Shaik, Barry J. Barnett, Keith H. Coble, J. Corey Miller and Terry Hanson -- 6. Issues associated with US livestock disease compensation in the 21st century / Stephen Ott -- 7. Conceptual issues in livestock insurance / Calum Turvey -- 8. Data requirements for domestic livestock insurance / John W. Green, James L. Driscoll and Megan L. Bruch -- 9. Public and private schemes indemnifying epidemic livestock losses in the European Union : a review / Marcel A.P.M. van Asseldonk, Miranda P.M. Meuwissen, Ruud B.M. Huirne and Eckhardt Wilkens -- 10. Designing epidemic livestock insurance / Miranda P.M. Meuwissen, Marcel A.P.M. van Asseldonk, Jerry R. Skees and Ruud B.M. Huirne -- 11. German system of compensating animal keepers in cases of outbreaks of animal diseases / H.-J. Bätza -- 12. Managing the risks and impacts of animal diseases in the Australian livestock sector / G.B. Neumann and R.C. Keogh -- 13. Livestock industry insurance : Canada / Bruce Stephen and Terri Epps -- 14. current state of US federally supported livestock insurance / Chad Hart -- 15. Livestock disease eradication programmes and farm incentives : the case of bovine tuberculosis / Christopher A. Wolf |
| Summary |
This book on the economics of livestock disease insurance is organized into three major parts. Following an introduction (chapters 1-2), part II (chapters 3-8) includes a variety of discussions about what is known about how to build a livestock insurance programme. It begins with a look at the conceptual basis for government involvement in the management of livestock diseases, including prevention, control, regulation and eradication. This discussion is picked up by looking at incentive compatibility and insurability conditions in the private sector, emphasizing how livestock disease management is unique. Compensation is also examined, including what losses should be compensated, choosing a method to value the losses, determining the portion of losses to compensate, and outlining a potential role for insurance. Finally, the complexity of the risks at the farm level is demonstrated using a model that evaluates revenue insurance. Part III (chapters 9-20) offers a diverse discussion about disease management issues and programmes in Australia, Canada, Europe and the USA. These chapters include more discussion about how to build economically sound insurance programmes, and observations are based on modelling or observing case studies. The book has a subject index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Agricultural insurance -- Livestock
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Agricultural insurance -- Livestock -- Case studies
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Livestock -- Diseases.
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Livestock -- Diseases -- Case studies
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Animal Diseases -- economics
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animal diseases |
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economics |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Insurance -- Liability.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Insurance -- Casualty.
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Agricultural policy.
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Animal diseases.
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Animal insurance.
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Case studies.
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Compensation.
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Disease control.
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Government policy.
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Incentives.
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Livestock.
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Livestock -- Diseases
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Koontz, Stephen R
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| ISBN |
1845930177 |
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9781845930172 |
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