Fig 1.
Conceptual framework of the study.
(a) Empirical data collection (b) Data analysis (c) Decision making.
Table 1.
Frequency of the responses to the structured socio-economic impact assessment.
Table 2.
Cost of mouse plague at the household level for all the sampled households (n = 1,668).
Table 3.
Number of responses for the broad types of crops grown.
Fig 2.
Distribution of the cost categories between among the affected entities (businesses/facilities, farms, and households).
Fig 3.
Spatial distribution of the costs.
Map prepared using ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap version 10.8.2), Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), Redlands, California, USA. LGA boundaries and town point data incorporate data from the 2021 Administrative Boundaries © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0) [48].
Table 4.
Comparison of the cost of mouse plague to farmers in 1993 and 2021.
Fig 4.
Cost of mouse plague incurred by the farmers in each Australian State affected in 1980, 1984, and 1993 compared to the 2021 mouse plague in NSW (this study).
Table 5.
Comparison of the average marginal effects among selected cost parameters.