Biological conservation in dynamic agricultural landscapes: effectiveness of public policies and trade-offs with agricultural production

Frederic Barraquand () and Vincent Martinet
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Frederic Barraquand: CEBC - Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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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 agrienvironmental 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.

Keywords: LAND-USE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL-ECONOMIC MODEL; CONSERVATION; DYNAMIC LANDSCAPE; PAYSAGE DYNAMIQUE; MODELE ECOLOGIQUE-ECONOMIQUE; CHANGEMENT D'USAGE DES SOLS; VOLABILITE DES PRIX; AGRICULTURE; PRICE VOLATILITY; aménagement paysager (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Published in Ecological Economics, 2011, 70 (5), pp.910-920. ⟨10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.12.019⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.12.019

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