@article{Xie:42905,
      recid = {42905},
      author = {Xie, Fang},
      title = {Disease and Behavioral Dynamics for Brucellosis in Elk and  Cattle in the Greater Yellowstone Area},
      address = {2008},
      number = {1097-2016-88526},
      pages = {54},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {This paper investigates private responses to policies that  have been proposed to confront a human-wildlife conflict  that likely emerged as a result of a management regime  designed to address an earlier human-wildlife conflict. The  artificial elk feeding which is intended to conserve  wildlife and reduce elk predation on cattle forage, now led  to the emergence of brucellosis in elk and has allowed it  to become endemic, in turn imposing great risk to the  livestock. We propose a joint model of wildlife and  livestock population and disease dynamics, and behavioral  dynamics, to gain insight into the challenges of managing  brucellosis infection between livestock and the Jackson elk  herd in Wyoming. We examine population and disease dynamics  under several different management options for the Jackson  elk herd, where each option involves a combination of  changes in elk feeding and population levels. Farmer  responses to these dynamics, when vaccination is not  required, are modeled along with the associated impacts to  livestock dynamics. Our findings suggest that the feedbacks  between jointly determined disease dynamics and  decentralized economic behavior matter when choosing among  various policy approaches},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/42905},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.42905},
}