An imbalance of quantitative information on pest and disease impacts
hampers biosecurity decision-making; there is relatively good information
about impacts on industry, but relatively poor information about how society
values the impacts on indigenous biodiversity. A benefits transfer process
based on a database of choice experiments could help to redress this
imbalance. This paper: briefly reviews four choice experiments that will be
the foundation of a database; reviews benefit transfer literature; and sets out
framework ideas for a Decision Support System (DSS), which will incorporate
biodiversity values via a process for benefit transfer to facilitate more
informed biosecurity decisions
