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For several decades, significant changes in farmland biodiversity have been reported in Europe. Agriculture is a major … driver of these modifications. Taking into account these environmental impacts, agriculture nowadays aims at a more … insights into the impact of public policies on both conservation of biodiversity and farming production. We develop a macro …
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) biodiversity-rich land. Southern countries allocate optimally land and capital to two competing productive activities, agriculture … of biodiversity and global social welfare by changing the relative contributions to biodiversity protection and to … agricultural production. Because of the public good nature of biodiversity, Warr's neutrality theorem suggests that such transfers …
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Cet article propose de caractériser les déterminants du choix de signalisation par les petites coopératives de la qualité de leurs produits, à travers l’adoption d’un signe officiel et/ou d’une marque. Les estimations économétriques menées sur l’ensemble des données nationales...
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Business activities play a major role in biodiversity loss so that firms are under increasing pressures from … stakeholders to mitigate their negative impacts on ecosystems. As business attitudes, policies and behaviors regarding biodiversity … implemented is required. In the first part of this paper, the authors discuss how biodiversity is usually understood as an …
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The invasion by the spreading species is one of the most serious threats to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning …
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Forest management aims at building ecological networks that minimize the impacts on timber production. We formalize the construction of ecological networks in forest environments as the optimal control dynamic graph-theoretic problem. The ecological network is based on a set of bioreserves and...
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The aim of this paper is to compare different environmental policies for cost-effective habitat conservation on agricultural lands, when the desired spatial pattern of reserves is a random mosaic. We use a spatially explicit mathematical programming model which studies the farmers' behavior as...
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ways of a sustainable hunting in France. New actors are involved in this policy of conservation of biodiversity embedded in … policies on biodiversity is gradually refining the available tools and knowledge essential to what looks like a process of …
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critical importance to mitigate climate change. At the same time, they are central to the EU's biodiversity policy, and … particular the Natura 2000 network of protected areas. Yet, the interlinkage between climate change and biodiversity policy is …
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This paper addresses the issue of designing policies for habitat conservation on agricultural land. The case under study requires a non-aggregated spatial distribution of the fields to be enrolled in an agri-environmental programme. A spatially explicit mathematical programming farm-based model,...
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