The Economics of Landscape and Wildlife Conservation

by Dabbert, Stephan; Dubgaard, Alex; Slangen, Louis; Whitby, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780851992228
• ISBN10: 0851992226
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-30
• Publisher: Cab Intl

Summary

In recent years, landscape and wildlife conservation has attracted increased attention from environmentalists and policy-makers. There have been policies within the European Union aimed at conserving wildlife and landscape in Europe for more than a decade and appraisal of these policies is opportune. A workshop was therefore held at the University of Hohenheim in September 1996, to examine critical issues associated with these policies. This workshop was one of a series, each focusing on a key theme as part of the EU Concerted Action, 'œPolicy measures to control environmental impacts from agriculture'. This book presents a selection of revised papers from this workshop. The overall perspective is an economic one, with several chapters reviewing analytical methods, economic valuation of the benefits of agricultural landscapes and the costs and benefits of wildlife conservation. These are set in the context of the Common Agricultural Policy and environmental policies in the EU. The book represents important reading for agricultural and environmental economists, as well as those concerned with ecology and conservation.

Table of Contents

Contributors	viii	(3)
Preface	xi
Section I Policy Perspective	1	(10)
1 Towards Sustainable Agriculture: the Perspectives of the Common Agricultural Policy in the European Union	1	(10)
Peter Billing
Section II Analytical Positions	11	(42)
2 Appropriate Frameworks for Studying the Relationship between Agriculture and the Environment: a Question of Balance	11	(12)
Julie Whittaker
3 The Po Delta Park: One River, Two Policies	23	(14)
Giorgio Osti
4 The Values of the Agricultural Landscape: a Discussion on Value-related Terms in Natural and Social Sciences and the Implications for the Contingent Valuation Method	37	(16)
Fredrik Holstein
Section III Economic Valuation of Benefits of Agricultural Landscape	53	(32)
5 Economic Valuation of Recreation Benefits from Danish Forests	53	(12)
Alex Dubgaard
6 Valuable Landscapes and Reliable Estimates	65	(20)
Knut Per Hasund
Section IV Costs and Benefits of Wildlife Conservation	85	(74)
7 Cost-Benefit Analysis of Landscape Restoration: a Case-study in Western France	85	(12)
Francois Bonnieux
Philippe Le Goffe
8 The Full Cost of Stewardship Policies	97	(16)
Martin Whitby
Caroline Saunders
Christopher Ray
9 The Financial and Economic Consequences of a Wildlife Development and Conservation Plan: a Case-study for the Ecological Main Structure in The Netherlands	113	(22)
Arie Oskam
Louis Slangen
10 Landscape Values in Farming and Forestry Environmental Accounting (Area Scale Versus Enterprise Approach)	135	(24)
Edi Defrancesco
Maurizio Merlo
Section V How Should We Organize Conservation by Farmers?	159	(46)
11 Private Provision of Public Environmental Goods: Policy Mechanisms for Agriculture	159	(14)
Robert D. Weaver
12 Mechanisms for the Provision of Public Goods in the Countryside	173	(14)
Uwe Latacz-Lohmann
13 Sociological and Economic Factors Influencing Farmers' Participation in Agri-environmental Schemes	187	(18)
Gottfried Kazenwadel
Bareld van der Ploeg
Patrick Baudoux
Gottfried Haring
Section VI Spatial Modelling Approach	205	(34)
14 Optimal Allocation of Wildlife Conservation Areas within Agricultural Land	205	(12)
Ada Wossink
Clifford Jurgens
Jaap van Wenum
15 Impacts of the European Union Reform Policy after 1996 in North-east Germany: Landscape Change and Wildlife Conservation	217	(14)
Hans-Peter Piorr
Michael Glemnitz
Harald Kachele
Wilfried Mirschel
Ulrich Stachow
16 Interdisciplinary Modelling of Agri-environmental Problems: Lessons from NELUP	231	(8)
Andrew Moxey
Ben White
Section VII Integrating the Common Agricultural Policy and Environmental Policy	239	(20)
17 An Integrated Approach to Agricultural and Environmental Policies: a Case-study of the Spanish Cereal Sector	239	(14)
Jose Sumpsi
Eva Iglesias
Alberto Garrido
18 Research Results and Policy Implications	253	(6)
Stephan Dabbert
Alex Dubgaard
Louis Slangen
Martin Whitby
References	259	(20)
Index	279