Adoption of ecosystem-based measures in farmlands – new opportunities for flood risk management

Abstract

Ecosystem-based approach for flood risk management is a growing new field of research which has an emphasis on the role of ecosystems for the reduction of floods. One way of implementing this approach is by using the potential of farmlands to reduce and store run-off in a way that the water is retained within a certain catchment. In Europe during the last few years more and more attention has been paid on the role of agriculture for providing ecosystem services including flood risk reduction. Currently, one possibility for the implementation of the ecosystem approach in farmlands is the provision of the Common Agricultural Policy and more specifically the implementation of agri-environment measures. The aim of this paper is to present the potential for the adoption of ecosystem-based measures by examining the farmers' willingness to adopt agri-environment measures. The adoption behavior of farmers is analyzed on the base of а survey among 77 farmers in Iskar river catchment in Bulgaria.

Factors affecting adoption behavior of farmers in Bulgaria - agrienvironment public goods for flood risk management

“…Wilson (1996) schemes. Therefore, a significant impact on its decision has the level of compensation, which covers lost profits and increased costs resulting from the application of the measure (Todorova, 2017a). A number of authors (Vanslembrouck et al, 2002;Ervin and Ervin, 1982;Kingsbury and Boggess (1999); Wilson, 1996;Wynn et al, 2008;Defrancesco et al, 2008) identify groups of factors beyond the level of compensation, because it is not sufficient to cover the complexity of the choice a farmer faces.…”

Identifying and Evaluating the Mechanisms and Modes of Governance of Ecosystem Services – The Case of Bulgarian Agriculture

“…In Bulgaria, research on economic and other issues related to agroecosystem services are at the beginning stage and mostly at "conceptual and methodological" level (Bachev, 2010;Grigorova and Kazakova, 2008;Todorova, 2017;ИАОС, 2020;Казакова, 2016;Недков, 2016;Николов, 2018;Тодорова, 2017;Чипев et al, 2017). Besides, there very few studies on dominating modes of governance at the current stage of development and fundamental transformation of EU CAP (Башев, 2012;2020).…”