Table of Contents:
  • Economics of Livestock Disease Insurance : Principles, Issues and Worldwide Cases / Dana L. Hoag, Dawn D. Thilmany and Stephen R. Koontz
  • The Role of USDA-APHIS in Livestock Disease Management within the USA / Jennifer L. Grannis and Megan L. Bruch
  • The Role of Public Policy in Controlling Animal Disease / Daniel A. Sumner, José E. Bervejillo and Lovell Jarvis
  • Incentive Compatibility in Risk Management of Contagious Livestock Diseases / Ben M. Gramig, Barry J. Barnett, Jerry R. Skees and J. Roy Black
  • Insurability Conditions and Livestock Disease Insurance / Saleem Shaik, Barry J. Barnett, Keith H. Coble, J. Corey Miller and Terry Hanson
  • Issues Associated with US Livestock Disease Compensation in the 21st Century / Stephen Ott
  • Conceptual Issues in Livestock Insurance / Calum Turvey
  • Data Requirements for Domestic Livestock Insurance / John W. Green, James L. Driscoll and Megan L. Bruch
  • 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
  • Designing Epidemic Livestock Insurance / Miranda P.M. Meuwissen, Marcel A.P.M. van Asseldonk, Jerry R. Skees and Ruud B.M. Huirne
  • The German System of Compensating Animal Keepers in Cases of Outbreaks of Animal Diseases / H.-J. Bätza
  • Managing the Risks and Impacts of Animal Diseases in the Australian Livestock Sector / G.B. Neumann and R.C. Keogh
  • Livestock Industry Insurance : Canada / Bruce Stephen and Terri Epps
  • The Current State of US Federally Supported Livestock Insurance / Chad Hart
  • Livestock Disease Eradication Programmes and Farm Incentives : the Case of Bovine Tuberculosis / Christopher A. Wolf
  • Economic Impacts of Eradicating Scrapie, Ovine Progressive Pneumonia and Johne's Disease on US Sheep, Lamb, Sheep Meat and Lamb Meat Markets / Ann Hillberg Seitzinger, Philip L. Paarlberg and John G. Lee
  • Understanding Broader Economic Effects of Livestock Insurance and Health Management : Impacts of Disease Outbreak on Allied Industries / James Pritchett, Dawn Thilmany and Kamina Johnson
  • US Livestock Industry's Views on Livestock Disease Insurance / Jennifer L. Grannis, John W. Green and Megan L. Bruch
  • Modelling the Impact of Compulsory Foot and Mouth Disease Insurance in the European Union / Torbjörn Jansson, Bo Norell and Ewa Rabinowicz
  • Investigating the Feasibility of Livestock Disease Insurance : a Case Study in US Aquaculture / Keith H. Coble, Terry R. Hanson, Stephen H. Sempier, Saleem Shaik and J. Corey Miller.