 Multifunctionality: How "Green" is the "European Model of Agriculture"?Thilo W. Glebe ()
No 12003, Discussion Papers from Technische Universität München, Environmental Economics and Agricultural Policy Group Abstract: The relative importance the EU has given to the positive multifunctional benefits of agriculture in comparison with its negative environmental effects is likely to become a politically controversial issue in multilateral trade negotiations. A key to the resolution of the potential trade conflicts which may result from this debate would be the finding of criteria by which the genuineness and the relative importance of agri-environmental externalities can be assessed. This paper reviews the literature on the environmental impact of European agriculture. It shows that valuation studies have not yet been able to elicit the marginal social values of the environmental effects of agricultural production. This constrains the ability to analyse quantitatively the welfare effects of agricultural policies and to identify socially optimal levels of agri-environmental measures. Date: 2003-01, Revised 2007 Published in Review of Agricultural Economics 29 (1): 87-102 (title: “The environmental impact of European farming: How legitimate are agri- environmental payments?”). There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:tuu:papers:012003 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Discussion Papers from Technische Universität München, Environmental Economics and Agricultural Policy Group |
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