Durch die Dezentralisierung und Flexibilisierung von Agrarumweltpolitik soll u.a. der Anonymität und mangelnden Transparenz von Entscheidungsmechanismen sowie bestehenden Zentralisierungstendenzen und Demokratiedefiziten entgegengewirkt werden. Auf regionaler und lokaler Ebene spielen dabei vor...

Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) have become a popular instrument in the last decades and this growing trend is also clearly evident in Brazil. However, challenges related to implementation of these schemes are often underestimated. Any guarantee that a payment will secure or provide such a...

This article examines two drastic changes in the performance of local water associations in providing local public goods – appropriate levels of water table – in the reclamation system in the Powiat Pyrzyce in the Voivodship Zachodniopomorski in northwest Poland. Employing an institutional...

Cross Compliance (CC) is a mechanism for encouraging farmers to fulfill certain environmental conditions in return for governmental support payments. Introduced to United States (US) and European Union (EU) agricultural policy from the 80s onwards, upcoming new US (Farm Bill 2012) and EU (Common...