Ecological compensation measures : risks or opportunities for agricultural land in France ?

Étrillard, Claire; Pech, Michel

doi:10.4000/vertigo.16450

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“…Conservation easements are often part of ecological compensation policies. Ecological compensation consists of securing land by means of sustainable acquisitions or agreements and restoring it through ecological actions, with the goal of increasing its value (Etrillard and Pech 2015). This tool is still being tested in various countries, although it seems to be well developed in the USA.…”

Section: Policy Instruments That Impact User Rights Through Regulationmentioning

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Diversity of farmland management practices (FMP) and their nexus to environment: A review

Zangue

Melot

Martin

2022

Journal of Environmental Management

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We examined the environmental impacts of farmland management practices (FMPs), considering FMPs as frequent or single actions that change both land use AND use rights (land and property relations). Based on a review of the international literature in both the social and life sciences and using an analytical framework of landscape agronomy, we explored the links between FMPs and changes in agricultural practices designed for the achievement of environmental goals. The Web of Science (WOS) and SCOPUS bibliographic databases were used to identify references on FMP types and their environmental effects based on the following search equations: 1-" Farmland tenure OR cropland tenure OR farm size and environment " and 2-"Farmland use rights OR farmland property rights AND environment OR pollution OR biodiversity." Ninety references were selected from these databases and read in depth. Google scholar enabled us to identify an additional 20 papers, using the snowball approach. From this analysis, we present a typology of FMPs based on the distinction between bottom-up strategies, which rely on local initiatives from farmers to improve the overall functioning of their farms, and top-down strategies, which originate from public bodies or private organizations. Our results also highlight the environmental impacts of FMPs considered in the literature: tenure arrangements, whether rental or exchange of land parcels, may alter crop succession and reduce phytosanitary pressure without changing cropping plans. Considering the direct agronomic implications of farmers' land dynamics, we conclude that the area of FMPs is a potential tool for reducing the environmental impacts of agricultural activities and protecting natural resources. This is the subject of ongoing research that seeks to explore a particular FMP in greater depth, along with temporary exchanges of plots between farmers as an agri-environmental tool to reduce agricultural impacts on environment.

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Section: Policy Instruments That Impact User Rights Through Regulationmentioning

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Diversity of farmland management practices (FMP) and their nexus to environment: A review

Zangue

Melot

Martin

2022

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…Taking into account the likely reluctance of farmers to give up their best farmland for wetland restoration exacerbates this risk, leading to an overall net loss. However, this reluctance has been repeatedly highlighted, e.g., [57,60,61]. Although at present it is not common practice, prioritizing offsets in ecological corridors improves the ecological quality of offsetting More recent practices based on functional approaches, as modeled in the local river basin plan and prospective scenario, perform better.…”

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Modeling Alternative Approaches to the Biodiversity Offsetting of Urban Expansion in the Grenoble Area (France): What Is the Role of Spatial Scales in ‘No Net Loss’ of Wetland Area and Function?

Vaissière

Quétier²,

Bierry

et al. 2021

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It is increasingly common for developers to be asked to manage the impacts of their projects on biodiversity by restoring other degraded habitats that are ecologically equivalent to those that are impacted. These measures, called biodiversity offsets, generally aim to achieve ‘no net loss’ (NNL) of biodiversity. Using spatially-explicit modeling, different options were compared in terms of their performance in offsetting the impacts on wetlands of the planned urban expansion around Grenoble (France). Two implementation models for offsetting were tested: (a) the widespread bespoke permittee-led restoration project model, resulting in a patchwork of restored wetlands, and (b) recently-established aggregated and anticipated “banking” approaches whereby larger sets of adjacent parcels offset the impacts of several projects. Two ecological equivalence methods for sizing offsets were simulated: (a) the historically-prevalent area-based approach and (b) recently introduced approaches whereby offsets are sized to ensure NNL of wetland functions. Simulations showed that a mix of functional methods with minimum area requirements was more likely to achieve NNL of wetland area and function across the study area and within each subwatershed. Our methodology can be used to test the carrying capacity of a landscape to support urban expansion and its associated offsetting in order to formulate more sustainable development plans.

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Ecological compensation measures : risks or opportunities for agricultural land in France ?

Cited by 2 publications

References 5 publications

Diversity of farmland management practices (FMP) and their nexus to environment: A review

Diversity of farmland management practices (FMP) and their nexus to environment: A review

Modeling Alternative Approaches to the Biodiversity Offsetting of Urban Expansion in the Grenoble Area (France): What Is the Role of Spatial Scales in ‘No Net Loss’ of Wetland Area and Function?

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