Stimulating the social and environmental benefits of agriculture and forestry: An EU-based comparative analysis

Karlheinz Knickel and Anne Maréchal

Land Use Policy, 2018, vol. 73, issue C, 320-330

Abstract: Stimulating an effective provision of public goods and ecosystem services from Europe’s farmland and forests is a critical challenge for policy-makers. In this paper we focus on three aspects of this challenge. Firstly, we explore the different drivers that influence the provision of public goods and ecosystem services by farming and forestry. Secondly, we identify the key motivational, institutional and socio-economic factors that can encourage the provision of these benefits. And thirdly, we examine the role of governance arrangements, of new forms of cooperation and of institutional change in enhancing the provision of public goods and ecosystem services.

Keywords: Land use; Policy; Social-ecological systems; Agriculture; Forestry; Public goods; Ecosystem services; Social benefits; Environmental benefits; Governance; Cooperation; Institutional change; Motivations; Drivers; Multi-actor initiatives; Innovation; European Union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.12.064

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