Cooperative Management of Ecosystem Services: Coalition Formation, Landscape Structure and Policies

Gestion coopérative des services écosystémiques: formation de coalitions, structure du paysage et politiques

Francois Bareille, Matteo Zavalloni, Meri Raggi and Davide Viaggi
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Matteo Zavalloni: Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences - UNIBO - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna

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Abstract: A growing body of literature shows that full-cooperation among farmers to manage productive ecosystem services would yield gains with respect to uncoordinated approaches. The public good feature of these ecosystem services may, however, hinder the emergence of a cooperative solution at the landscape scale. In this paper, we introduce in a coalition formation game a spatially-explicit bioeconomic model of fruit pollination, where pollinaton depends on the distance to the choosen location of natural habitats. We analyse: (i) which coalitions are stable; (ii) what benefits they provide; (iii) how cooperation depends on the initial landscape structure; and (iv) how policy instruments affect cooperation. The theoretical model presents the rationality of cooperation but, due to the detailed heterogeneity and complex spatial interactions among farms, we use a numerical example to determine the stable coalitions. We find that only small coalitions are stable and that the benefits of cooperation decrease when the spatial autocorrelation of fruit tree covers increase. Policy instruments can increase the interest for cooperation but per-hectare payments and minimum participation rules may reduce the habitat area at the margin (by decreasing the stability of coalitions). Price premium for the coalition members increase the habitat area but its budget-effectiveness decreases as the spatial autocorrelation of fruit tree covers increase.

Keywords: Spatially explicit spillovers; Incitation collective (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-06
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Published in Environmental and Resource Economics, 2021, 79 (2), pp.323-356. ⟨10.1007/s10640-021-00563-z⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/s10640-021-00563-z

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