Similar Search Results

La biodiversidad en el universo de los pagos por servicios ambientales: desentranando lo inextricable

Blas, Driss; Rico, Luis; Perez, Manuel; Maris, Virginie - In: Revista Española de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros (2011) 228

Payments for Environmental Services (PES) and biodiversity conservation in developing countries. We first discuss some of the … inherent complexities and uncertainties when linking biodiversity to ecosystem services and the related inconsistencies to deal … with ecosystem services monitoring, quantification and biodiversity economic valuation. We then apply such theoretical …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010937011

Re-organising farm businesses to improve environmental outcomes

Crosthwaite, Jim; Moll, Jim; Dorrough, Josh; Malcolm, Bill - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 17 (2009)

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010923386

Optimal conservation investment for a biodiversity-rich agricultural landscape

White, Ben; Sadler, Rohan - In: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 56 (2012) 1

Biodiversity Hotspot (Nature 403, 853). This Biodiversity Hotspot is a focus for conservation investment as it combines a … relatively high level of biodiversity with severe threat to the biodiversity from agriculture. The conservation planning model … scheme that at least fences fragments, significant plant biodiversity losses will occur in the North East Wheatbelt Regional …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275444

Spatially explicit farming system modelling for an efficient agri-environmental policy design

Havlik, Petr; Bamiére, Laure; Jacquet, Florence; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008

A mathematical programming model is developed and associated to a spatial pattern index (Ripley L function) to analyse the optimal reserve design and implementation for the Little Bustard conservation in Plaine de Niort. The model structure corresponds to three spatial levels, fields, farm and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005330089

Valuing Ecosystem Diversity in South East Queensland: A Life Satisfaction Approach

Ambrey, Christopher L.; Fleming, Christopher M. - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2011

The life satisfaction approach has recently emerged as a new technique in the suite of options available to non-market valuation practitioners. This paper examines the influence of ecosystem diversity on the life satisfaction of residents of South East Queensland, Australia. It is found that, on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009326034

Agri-Environmental Policies When the Spatial Pattern of Biodiversity Reserves Matters

Bamiere, Laure; David, Maia; Vermont, Bruno - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

The aim of this paper is to compare different policy instruments 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009326152

Opportunity Costs of Providing Crop Diversity in Organic and Conventional Farming: Would Targeted Environmental Policies Make Economic Sense?

Sipilainen, Timo; Huhtala, Anni - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

Targeted environmental policies for farmlands may improve the cost-efficiency of conservation programs if one can identify the farms that produce public goods, or environmental outputs, with the least cost. We derive shadow values of producing crop diversity on conventional and organic crop...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009326246

Do Farmers Internalise External Impacts of Pesticides in Production?

Skevas, Theodoros; Stefanou, Spiro E.; Oude Lansink, … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

low toxicity pesticides, and variables reflecting pesticide impacts on biodiversity and operator’s health. The application … focuses on panel data of Dutch cash crop producers. The pesticide contribution on some biodiversity categories are found to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201375

An Investigation into the Net Benefits of Revegetating Agricultural Land with Indigenous Species in the Dryland Section of the Goulburn-Broken Catchment Area

Trapnell, Lindsay N. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2003

Benefits ascribed to the revegetation of farming landscapes include enhancement of biodiversity, reduction in the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008457082

On the Productive Value of Biodiversity

Chavas, Jean-Paul - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2006

The paper investigates the value of biodiversity as it relates to the productive value of services provided by an … measure of the value of biodiversity. Second, this measure is decomposed into four components, reflecting the role of … biodiversity value. Third, the paper examines the role of uncertainty. In this context, the role of risk and of downside …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005483764