Invasive species in a globalized world : ecological, social, and legal perspectives on policy

Over the past several decades, the field of invasion biology has rapidly expanded as global trade and the spread of human populations have increasingly carried animal and plant species across natural barriers that have kept them ecologically separated for millions of years. Because some of these nonnative species thrive in their new homes and harm environments, economies, and human health, the prevention and management of invasive species has become a major policy goal from local to international levels. Yet even though ecological research has led to public conversation and policy recommendations, those recommendations have frequently been ignored, and the efforts to counter invasive species have been largely unsuccessful. Recognizing the need to engage experts across the life, social, and legal sciences as well as the humanities, the editors of this volume have drawn together a wide variety of ecologists, historians, economists, legal scholars, policy makers, and communications scholars, to facilitate a dialogue among these disciplines and understand fully the invasive species phenomenon. Aided by case studies of well-known invasives such as the cane toad of Australia and the emerald ash borer, Asian carp, and sea lampreys that threaten US ecosystems, __Invasive Species in a Globalized World__ offers strategies for developing and implementing anti-invasive policies designed to stop their introduction and spread, and to limit their effects. Contents 6 Chapter 1. Working across Disciplines to Understand and Manage Invasive Species - R. P. Keller, M. Cadotte, G. Sandiford 10 Section I. Introduction: Of Toads, Squirrels, Carps, and Kids: How Science and Human Perceptions Drive Our Responses to Invasive Species 30 Chapter 2. The Ecological, Evolutionary, and Social Impact of Invasive Cane Toads in Australia - R. Shine 32 Chapter 3. A Tale of Two Squirrels: A British Case Study of the Sociocultural Dimensions of Debates over Invasive Species - P. Coates 53 Chapter 4. Fish Tales: Optimism and Other Bias in Rhetoric about Exotic Carps in America - G. Sandiford 81 Chapter 5. “Sooper” Impact: Drawing the Attention of Kids to the Dangers of Invasive Species - M. Newman 108 Section II. Introduction: Here They Come: Understanding and Managing the Introduction of Invasive Species 122 Chapter 6. Patterns of Live Vertebrate Importation into the United States: Analysis of an Invasion Pathway - C. Romagosa 124 Chapter 7. All in the Family: Relatedness and the Success of Introduced Species - M. Cadotte, L. Jin 156 Chapter 8. Reducing Damaging Introductions from International Species Trade through Invasion Risk Assessment - M. Springborn 172 Section III. Introduction: Controlling the Bad: Reducing the Impacts of Established Invaders 192 Chapter 9. Evaluating the Economic Costs and Benefits of Slowing the Spread of Emerald Ash Borer - J. Bossenbroek, A. Croskey, D. Finnoff, L. Iverson, S. McDermott, A. Prasad, C. Sims, D. Sydnor 202 Chapter 10. Climate Change Challenges in the Management of Invasive Sea Lamprey in Lake Superior - J. Kitchell, T. Cline, V. Bennington, G. McKinley 226 Chapter 11. Ecological Separation without Hydraulic Separation: Engineering Solutions to Control Invasive Common Carpin Australian Rivers - Robert Keller 250 Chapter 12. Does Enemy Release Contribute to the Success of Invasive Species? A Review of the Enemy Release Hypothesis - K. Prior, J. Hellmann 269 Section IV. Introduction: Where To from Here? Policy Prospects at International, National, and Regional Levels 298 Chapter 13. From Global to Local: Integrating Policy Frameworks for the Prevention and Management of Invasive Species - S. Burgiel 300 Chapter 14. Developing Invasive Species Policy for a Major Free Trade Bloc: Challenges and Progress in the European Union - C. Shine 320 Chapter 15. There Ought to Be a Law! The Peculiar Absence of Broad Federal Harmful Nonindigenous Species Legislation - M. Miller 344 Chapter 16. Pathways toward a Policy of Preventing New Great Lakes Invasions - J. Brammeier, T. Cmar 373 Chapter 17. Final Thoughts: Nature and Human Nature - G. Sandiford, R. P. Keller, M. Cadotte 398 Index 412 We Live In A Globalised World In Which People And Goods Are Transported Across Ecosystem Boundaries In Greater Volumes And Faster Than Ever Before. One Consequence Of Globalisation Has Been The Introduction, Establishment, And Spread Of Many Thousands Of Species Beyond The Ecosystems In Which They Evolved. Many Of These Species Cause Harm, And Are Referred To As Invasive. This Book Brings Together Experts From Many Disciplines To Present Multi-disciplinary Perspectives On The Impacts Of Invasive Species, And How Policy Can Be Created And Enacted To Reduce Those Impacts. Recognizing the need to engage experts across the life, social, and legal sciences as well as the humanities, this volume draws together a wide variety of ecologists, historians, economists, legal scholars, policy makers, and communications scholars, to facilitate a dialogue among these disciplines and understand the invasive species phenomenon.