The role of legislation and policy in dealing with contentious plants

摘要: Legislation and government policy can provide guidance in dealing with invasive plants. However, plants cannot always be grouped into mutually exclusive ‘useful’ ‘problematic’ categories. There are contentious that have attributes make them useful or desirable problematic. Weeds legislation deal ef- fectively these plants, many of which may never declared weeds. We propose ways countering the negative effects species whilst continuing to enable commercial exploitation. These include a range voluntary and/or regulatory approaches, such as codes practice, subsidies, compensation, bonds, levies indemnity insurance.