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Trade-offs between carbon sequestration, landscape aesthetics and biodiversity in a cost-benefit analysis of land use options in Norway
Iversen, Endre Kildal; Grimsrud, Kristine M.; Lindhjem, … - 2019
semi-natural pastureland. However, the program may have negative impacts on landscape aesthetics and biodiversity. We … from carbon sequestration and biodiversity seem more constant across space. The net present value of all land use … substantial hypothetical bias in benefit estimates and for cost increases. Results indicate that landscape and biodiversity values …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145560
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Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Land Use: Comparing Three Federal Policies
Walls, Margaret; Riddle, Anne - 2012
provision of ecosystem services in a region is its underlying biodiversity, i.e., the wealth and variety of plants, animals, and … microorganisms. Because the benefits from ecosystem services and biodiversity are not valued in market exchanges, private landowners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651751
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Farmers’ Preferences for Crop Variety Traits: Lessons for On-Farm Conservation and Technology Adoption
Asrat, Sinafikeh; Yesuf, Mahmud; Carlsson, Fredrik; … - 2009
Although in-situ conservation is increasingly considered an efficient way of conserving plant genetic resources, little is known about the incentives and constraints that govern conservation decisions among small farm holders in developing countries. Using a choice experiment approach, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541871
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Assessing fire hazard in coastal heathlands: Predicted impacts of weather, land use and management
Halvorsen, Bente; Grimsrud, Kristine M. - 2024
Unmanaged and overgrown coastal heathlands represent a substantial fire hazard. We analyse how this hazard in Norwegian coastal heathlands is influenced by weather conditions, land management, and usage. Our analysis integrates vegetation, maintenance, and management data with emergency response...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014550279
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Potential Cost-Effectiveness of Incentive Payment Programs for Biological Conservation
Siikamäki, Juha; Layton, David F. - 2006
biological benefits of protecting biodiversity hotspots in Finnish nonindustrial private forests. We then use these estimates to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005442577
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Fast Track Land Reform and Agricultural Productivity in Zimbabwe
Zikhali, Precious - 2008
In the year 2000, the government of Zimbabwe launched the Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP) as part of its ongoing land reform and resettlement program. It seeks to address the racially skewed land distribution pattern inherited at independence in 1980. This paper used data on beneficiaries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541880
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Nudging Boserup? The Impact of Fertilizer Subsidies on Investment in Soil and Water Conservation
Vondolia, Godwin Kofi; Eggert, Håkan; Stage, Jesper
The new fertilizer subsidies in sub-Saharan Africa are intended to increase agricultural production and ensure development of a fertilizer market. Fertilizer adoption requires complementary inputs, such as investment in soil and water conservation (SWC), for efficient and optimal nutrient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643011
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Tree Cover Loss in El Salvador's Shade Coffee Areas
Blackman, Allen; Ávalos Sartorio, Beatriz; Chow, Jeffrey - 2007
Shade coffee farms in Central America provide important ecological services. But because international coffee prices have fallen since 1990, many have been cleared to make way for more remunerative land uses. This problem is of particular concern in heavily deforested El Salvador, where a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005138467
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Internalizing negative environmental impacts from wind power production: Coasian bargaining, offsetting schemes and environmental taxes
Greaker, Mads; Hagem, Cathrine; Skulstad, Andreas - 2022
with increased loss of pristine land and biodiversity. The present paper provides a novel contribution to the literature on … with offsets and environmental taxes. We show that if additional loss of pristine nature and biodiversity is acceptable at … offset market. However, if no more loss of pristine land and biodiversity can be tolerated, compulsory and complete …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014550289
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Urban green: Integrating ecosystem extent and condition as a basis for ecosystem accounts: examples from the Oslo region
Garnåsjordet, Per Arild; Steinnes, Margrete; … - 2020
The article enhances the knowledge base for assessment of urban ecosystem services, within UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EEA), which is based on spatial extent accounts (area of ecosystems) and biophysical condition accounts (ecological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801089