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Abstract
Increasing pressure to reduce the use of pre and post-harvest treatment chemicals to control insect
pests has led to calls for alternative control methods. As a result, the implementation of area-wide
management of pests could be developed as either an alternative to chemicals or as a means of
reducing pesticide use. However, maintaining an area-wide management programme can be expensive
as it requires the execution of surveillance activities, exclusion measures and contingency plans for a
rapid eradication response in the case of a pest outbreak. A sound benefit-cost analysis is an essential
starting point to measure gains from research and development into improved methods of surveillance
and exclusion. This paper presents a study of the costs of surveillance measures. We applied our
model to the Fruit Fly Exclusion Zone (FFEZ) in South Eastern Australia.