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Biological conservation in dynamic agricultural landscapes: Effectiveness of public policies and trade-offs with agricultural production
- Source :
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Ecological Economics . Mar2011, Vol. 70 Issue 5, p910-920. 11p. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- Land use change and land management intensification are major drivers of biodiversity loss, especially in agricultural landscapes, that cover a large and increasing share of the world's surface. Incentive-based agri-environmental policies are designed to influence farmers'' land-use decisions in order to mitigate environmental degradation. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of agri-environmental schemes for biological conservation in a dynamic agricultural landscape under economic uncertainty. We develop a dynamic ecological economic model of agricultural land-use and spatially explicit population dynamics. We then relate policies (subsidies to grassland, taxation of agricultural intensity) to the ecological outcome (probability of persistence of a species of interest). We also analyze the associated trade-offs between agricultural production (in value) and biological conservation (in probability of persistence) at the landscape scale. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09218009
- Volume :
- 70
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Ecological Economics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 58747806
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.12.019