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Climate change and the resilient society: utopia or realistic option for German regions?
Frommer, Birte - In: Natural Hazards 58 (2011) 1, pp. 85-101
For the last five years, climate change has been increasingly perceived as a challenge for regional development. Compared to other nations, Germany is relatively ‘safe’, but the German regions are prone to different impacts of climate change; some of them might be positive but most will be...
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Climate change and the resilient society: utopia or realistic option for German regions?
Frommer, Birte - In: Natural Hazards 67 (2013) 1, pp. 99-115
For the last five years, climate change has been increasingly perceived as a challenge for regional development. Compared to other nations, Germany is relatively ‘safe’, but the German regions are prone to different impacts of climate change; some of them might be positive but most will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010759018
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How to increase the effectiveness of agri-environmental subsidy schemes through knowledge of farmer perceptions-a choice experiment on pesticide free buffer zones
Christensen, Tove; Pedersen, Anders Branth; Nielsen, … - 2010
Danish farmers have been far less interested in agri-environmental subsidy schemes than anticipated. We use choiceexperiments to estimate 486 Danish farmers’ preferences for a number of policy relevant scheme-characteristics.Subsidy schemes for pesticide free buffer zones along hedgerows are...
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Landwirtschaftliche Interessen-vertretung im Agrarumweltbereich - Fallstudie Brandenburg
Häußler, Stefanie; Prager, Katrin; Nagel, Uwe Jens - Universität <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> / … - 2007
, interest group and ministry in Brandenburg showed advantages and shortcomings of indirect participation (interest group … representatives) as compared to direct participation (farmers).Given the political aim of statewide uniform programmes, the … participation of interest group representatives is sufficient, but has scope for improvement. However, if policy aims for regionally …
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How to increase the effectiveness of agri-environmental subsidy schemes through knowledge of farmer perceptions-a choice experiment on pesticide free buffer zones
Christensen, Tove; Pedersen, Anders Branth; Nielsen, … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
Danish farmers have been far less interested in agri-environmental subsidy schemes than anticipated. We use choice experiments to estimate 486 Danish farmers’ preferences for a number of policy relevant scheme-characteristics. Subsidy schemes for pesticide free buffer zones along hedgerows are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201373
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DOES INTENSITY OF CHANGE MATTER? FACTORS AFFECTING ADOPTION IN TWO AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEMES
Barreiro-Hurle, Jesus; Espinosa-Goded, Maria; Dupraz, Pierre - 2008
Agri-environmental schemes are the main policy instrument currently available in the EU to promoteenvironmentally friendly farming practices. Nevertheless, the adoption rate of these measures is stilllimited. This paper develops a theoretical framework to explain farmer sign-up decision and...
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Re-considering Agri-Environmental Schemes premiums: the impact of fixed costs in sign-up decisions
Barreiro-Hurle, Jesus; Espinosa-Goded, Maria; Dupraz, Pierre - 2008
situation that might even worsen as the 20% additional payment as incentive for participation has been excluded in the new EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445644
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EX-ANTE EVALUATION OF AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEMES: COMBINING ELEMENTS OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC DECISION MAKING
Bartolini, Fabio; Gallerani, Vittorio; Viaggi, Davide - 2008
The objective of this paper is to set a complete ex-ante evaluation to support Decision Makers in designingmore efficient and effective agri-environmental contracts, through an integrated modelling of elements ofprivate and public decision making. Ex-ante comparison of policy design options in...
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Contract design in agri-environmental schemes with fixed private transaction costs and countervailing incentives
Viaggi, Davide - 2008
The aim of this paper is to test therelevance of considering private fixed transaction costsfor contract design of Agri-Environmental Schemes,when transaction costs are negatively correlated tomarginal compliance costs. In order to do so, aprincipal-agent model of contract design under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446293
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MODELING FARMERS PREFENCES FOR AGRIENVIRONMENTAL SCHEME DESIGN: A SPANISH CASE STUDY
Espinosa-Goded, Maria; Barreiro-Hurle, Jesus; Ruto, Eric - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
Agri-environmental schemes (AES) have had a limited effect on European agriculture due to farmer’s reluctance to participate in them. Information on the role that AES design can have on encouraging farmers to participate can be an important input into the design of such policies. This paper...
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