Shaping the landscape: agricultural policies and local biodiversity schemes

Nadine Turpin, Pierre Dupraz, C. Thenail, A. Joannon, J. Baudry (), S. Herviou and P. Verburg
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C. Thenail: AMORIQUE - Unité de recherche SAD Armorique - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
A. Joannon: AMORIQUE - Unité de recherche SAD Armorique - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
J. Baudry: AMORIQUE - Unité de recherche SAD Armorique - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
S. Herviou: UMR METAFORT - Mutations des activités des espaces et des formes d'organisation dans les territoires ruraux - ENITAC - Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs des Travaux Agricoles de Clermont-Ferrand - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - AgroParisTech - CEMAGREF - Centre national du machinisme agricole, du génie rural, des eaux et forêts
P. Verburg: Laboratory of Soil Science and Geology - WUR - Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen]

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Abstract: This paper analyses the potential effect of local agro-environmental policies in promoting multifunctionality in a rural landscape, with a two-scale modelling framework: a regional scale for food demand and a local scale for the forces driving land use. The framework has been designed in four steps. First, the relative influence of the driving factors on the current land use pattern has been analysed. Two scenarios are designed that vary the external demand for the total land use, and alter more or less quickly the specific location factors that drive the landscape pattern. The first scenario considers trends in the external and internal driving forces. The second relies both on totally decoupled farm subsidies and unregulated housing growth. In both scenarios a local agro-environmental policy is introduced and we compare its consequences with the previous scenario's landscape pattern. The third step consists of a modelling exercise that analyses the likely outcome of each scenario on the development of land use patterns on a local scale. Last, these landscape patterns have been translated into ecological indexes that assess the effect of the policy options on the multifunctionality of the local landscape.

Keywords: USAGE DE L'ESPACE; LAND USE PATTERN; LANDSCAPE; LOCAL AGRO-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; PAYSAGE; POLITIQUE AGRICOLE; SCENARIOS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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Published in Land Use Policy, 2009, 26 (2), p. 273 - p. 283. ⟨10.1016/j.landusepol.2008.03.004⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2008.03.004

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