Co-benefits and trade-offs between agriculture and conservation: A case study in Northern Australia

Stoeckl, Natalie; Chaiechi, Taha; Farr, Marina; Jarvis, Diane; Álvarez‐Romero, Jorge G.; Kennard, Mark J.; Hermoso, Virgilio; Pressey, Robert L.

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2015.07.032

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“…While hydroeconomic modelling has supported agricultural planning for many decades (e.g. Burt 1964), the incorporation of specific conservation goals is recent, largely due to the difficulty in resolving the scales of different data inputs (Brouwer and Hofkes 2008;Harou et al 2009;Stoeckl et al 2015). Two studies incorporating ecological data to explore the economic trade-offs of providing environmental flows suggest that achieving environmental goals need not come at the expense of achieving socioeconomic goals (Bryan et al 2013;Akter et al 2014), a conclusion supported by our study.…”

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confidence: 73%

“…Reserving land and water for conservation measures, which can be perceived as an imposition on private landowners and irrigators (Main et al 1999;Shandas 2007;Stoeckl et al 2015), has launched the development of incentive and covenanting programs to facilitate conservation on private lands in agricultural landscapes (Iftekhar et al 2014). Such programs appear to be successful in achieving terrestrial conservation goals (Langpap and Kerkvliet 2012), and have potential for improving river health (Langpap et al 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Grafton et al 2011;Bryan et al 2013;Qureshi et al 2013;Akter et al 2014) and has not yet been applied in Tasmania. Currently, water management planning in Tasmania relies on hydrological and ecological catchment assessments that are based on a sound scientific framework (Bobbi et al 2014), but as yet there is no objective means of integrating these assessments with economic values to explore trade-offs under different scenarios, a common situation globally (Ward and Booker 2003;Hermoso et al 2012;Akter et al 2014;Stoeckl et al 2015). We use the Tasmanian Midlands, one of the oldest agricultural landscapes in Australia, as a case study to demonstrate how bioeconomic modelling can reveal the relationships among hydrological, ecological and economic drivers at a regional scale.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A bioeconomic analysis of conserving freshwater values in an agricultural landscape

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Water is a finite resource that must be shared among multiple users and economic and conservation objectives can often be seen as being in conflict. We explored this perception by conducting an integrated bioeconomic analysis of irrigated agriculture and the conservation of freshwater attributes in an agricultural landscape, the Tasmanian Midlands. We constructed a simple bioeconomic model based on current hydrology, water allocation, land use and freshwater ecosystem values, and quantified the economic returns from irrigation under a range of future climate, agricultural development and conservation scenarios. We found that projected climate conditions and conserving freshwater values in good condition had small effects on economic returns to irrigators, and that enterprise diversity and the area irrigated were major drivers of economic returns in this landscape. The availability of land suitable for irrigation rather than irrigation water itself appeared most likely to limit the economic returns from irrigation in the future. We provide a multi-criteria analysis for comparing development and conservation scenarios at a regional scale to inform planning and decision making in conservation and natural resource management. Our approach brings irrigation and conservation concerns into the same context and demonstrates that conservation need not necessarily limit agricultural development.

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A bioeconomic analysis of conserving freshwater values in an agricultural landscape

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2017

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“…In recent years, the investigation the relationship between ecosystem management and the provision of the total bundle of ES has become a major field in ES studies ( e.g ., ). The synergies and trade‐offs between ES provided to different users under current and alternative scenarios have significant implications for decision‐making.…”

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Ecosystem Service Mapping and Assessment as a Support for Policy and Decision Making

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2016

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The aim of this paper is to investigate the potential of ecosystem services (ES) research to support policy and decision-making. As the ES concept is a multitier framework, there is no ideal entry point for conducting useful ES analysis. The entry point depends on the particular empirical or policy question being researched. The information on ES potential can contribute to the management of ecosystems, which provides services, including identification of priority conservation and restoration areas. Understanding the ES flows helps to protect paths needed to transmit the services to users. The demand for ES determines society's ambitions for sustainable management and ensuring a continuous supply of desired services. In turn, budget analyses allow identification of supply-demand mismatches across landscapes, and point out the appropriate institutional scale for environmental decision-making. The benefit of trade-offs analysis is weighing the improvements in one ES against the decrease of another. Finally, the specific configuration of rivalry and excludability of particular services enables the arrangement of an appropriate scheme of payments for ES. The complex recognition of the range of possible ES mapping and assessment products can help to match the ES analysis with policy goals.Once we identify a good entry point for examining a specific policy question, we can adequately embed the planned study within the ES framework.

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“…Land-based management options that limit nutrient loss from agricultural land, for instance, may save money for the farmer while also improving in-stream water quality, which in turn may benefit aquatic ecosystems and public health. Other management techniques, such as agricultural diversification and environmentally focused land management plans may benefit aquatic biodiversity without compromising farm incomes [49]. Trade-offs in ecosystem service are, however, more common than these synergistic relationships due to competing social, economic or ecological goals [23].Accounting for these competing factors may, however, allow interventions to be targeted at increasing the likelihood of win-win situations and the meeting of multiple demands.…”

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Managing Multiple Catchment Demands for Sustainable Water Use and Ecosystem Service Provision

Stosch¹,

Oliver²

2017

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Ensuring water, food and energy security for a growing world population represents a 21st century catchment management challenge. Failure to recognise the complexity of interactions across ecosystem service provision can risk the loss of other key environmental and socioeconomic benefits from the natural capital of catchment systems. In particular, the ability of soil and water to meet human needs is undermined by uncertainties around climate change effects, ecosystem service interactions and conflicting stakeholder interests across catchments. This critical review draws from an extensive literature to discuss the benefits and challenges of utilising an ecosystem service approach for integrated catchment management (ICM). State-of-the-art research on ecosystem service assessment, mapping and participatory approaches is evaluated and a roadmap of the key short-and longer-term research needs for maximising landscape-scale ecosystem service provision from catchments is proposed.

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Co-benefits and trade-offs between agriculture and conservation: A case study in Northern Australia

Cited by 11 publications

References 103 publications

A bioeconomic analysis of conserving freshwater values in an agricultural landscape

A bioeconomic analysis of conserving freshwater values in an agricultural landscape

Ecosystem Service Mapping and Assessment as a Support for Policy and Decision Making

Managing Multiple Catchment Demands for Sustainable Water Use and Ecosystem Service Provision

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