A systematic approach for assessing spatially and temporally differentiated opportunity costs of biodiversity conservation measures in grasslands / Melanie Mewes; Martin Drechsler; Karin Johst; Astrid Sturm; Frank Wätzold. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Department of Economics
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A systematic approach for assessing spatially and temporally differentiated opportunity costs of biodiversity conservation measures in grasslands
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urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:2-78942
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Leipzig : Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, 2013
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Biodiversity loss in Europe is caused to a large extent by agricultural intensification. To halt this loss and to support species and habitat types in agricultural areas, agri-environment schemes have been introduced in Europe to compensate farmers for (costly) conservation measures. Currently, agri-environment schemes for grassland in general consider only a few conservation measures with fixed dates and a payment for average opportunity costs, e.g. for later mowing. A systematic approach that calculates farmers' opportunity costs in relation to the timing of grassland use is still lacking. We fill this gap by developing a systematic agri-economic cost assessment approach. Our approach is general enough to be applicable on a large spatial scale but can still sensitively differentiate among different timings. Moreover it is straightforward and time-saving enough to be suitable for implementation in regional scale optimisation procedures. We demonstrate this by applying the systematic cost assessment in the decision support software DSS-Ecopay using the example of grassland species and habitats conservation in the German federal state of Saxony.
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UFZ-Diskussionspapiere ; 15/2013 ppn:635135833