Preparedness and Prevention

Program Leader:

DE BARROP

Description:

Preparedness and Prevention Program Image The Preparedness and Prevention Research Program will deliver the knowledge required to underpin decisions on the risk of entry, establishment and spread for emergency plant pests. We need to be better prepared and prevent problems before they start. International trade regulations demand that prioritisation and targeting of biosecurity risk be done scientifically. Risk analysis is a set of disciplines that brings greater rigour to the decision-making.

Goal

Decreased incidence and impact of harmful emergency plant pest incursions through contributing to the development of systems, based on risk-weighted, science-based decision making.

Actions

Develop knowledge to underpin risk analysis decisions on entry, establishment and spread for emergency plant pests.
Develop new risk assessment models for biosecurity.
Devise more efficient and effective responses to emergency plant pests through better understanding of their biology and epidemiology.

Benefits

Increased level of preparedness for potential emergency plant pest incursions.
Improved capacity to prioritise and identify the highest threat emergency plant pests.
Increased preparedness for effect of global climate change on potential emergency plant pests.

Strategic Objectives:

To undertake research that will fill critical gaps in the knowledge of the ecology and epidemiology of emergency plant pests to underpin decision making in biosecurity.

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Source URL: http://www.crcplantbiosecurity.com.au/program/preparedness-and-prevention