Site-specific and regionally optimal direct payments for mountain agriculture

Flury, Christian; Gotsch, Nikolaus; Rieder, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2004.02.003

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“…In addition, potential regionalization would increase the flexibility of adaptation strategies necessary for resilient development (Agrawal and Perrin 2009). A regionalization of policy instruments would also lead to a redistribution of financial support and compensation schemes (Flury et al 2005), which Reed et al (2009) also identified as a central option in the maintenance of EGS in the UK uplands, or as discussed by Lebel and Daniel (2009) in the context of payments for ecosystem services in tropical upland watersheds. Such a sitespecific allocation of financial resources is however not always possible under current sectoral and hierarchical policy mechanisms and may result in inefficient local solutions if regional or national boundary conditions are disregarded (Brondizio et al 2009).…”

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Sustainable Land Use in Mountain Regions Under Global Change: Synthesis Across Scales and Disciplines

Huber¹,

Rigling²,

Bebi³

et al. 2013

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ABSTRACT. Mountain regions provide essential ecosystem goods and services (EGS) for both mountain dwellers and people living outside these areas. Global change endangers the capacity of mountain ecosystems to provide key services. The Mountland project focused on three case study regions in the Swiss Alps and aimed to propose land-use practices and alternative policy solutions to ensure the provision of key EGS under climate and land-use changes. We summarized and synthesized the results of the project and provide insights into the ecological, socioeconomic, and political processes relevant for analyzing global change impacts on a European mountain region. In Mountland, an integrative approach was applied, combining methods from economics and the political and natural sciences to analyze ecosystem functioning from a holistic human-environment system perspective. In general, surveys, experiments, and model results revealed that climate and socioeconomic changes are likely to increase the vulnerability of the EGS analyzed. We regard the following key characteristics of coupled human-environment systems as central to our case study areas in mountain regions: thresholds, heterogeneity, trade-offs, and feedback. Our results suggest that the institutional framework should be strengthened in a way that better addresses these characteristics, allowing for (1) more integrative approaches, (2) a more network-oriented management and steering of political processes that integrate local stakeholders, and (3) enhanced capacity building to decrease the identified vulnerability as central elements in the policy process. Further, to maintain and support the future provision of EGS in mountain regions, policy making should also focus on projectoriented, cross-sectoral policies and spatial planning as a coordination instrument for land use in general.

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Section: Heterogeneitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Land Use in Mountain Regions Under Global Change: Synthesis Across Scales and Disciplines

Huber¹,

Rigling²,

Bebi³

et al. 2013

E&S

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“…Land use offers numerous examples of spatial environmental externalities (Bouman et al, 1999): loss of habitats, soil erosion, increased vulnerability of soils and loss of natural amenities are manifestations of the negative effects of land exploitation. In order to evaluate the externalities of land use, a spatially explicit model is required (Flury et al, 2005;Zander and Ka¨chele, 1999). There are two ways to create a spatially explicit model: either build it in a GIS, or combine a GIS with other models (Lausch, 2003).…”

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Incentives for low-input land-use types and their influence on the attractiveness of landscapes

Schüpbach

Zgraggen²,

Szerencsits

2008

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…Traditionally, land abandonment has often been modeled with comparative sector supply models [14][15][16]. Land management decisions in these long term modeling studies were usually represented by simplified and uniform mechanisms (e.g., income maximization) on an aggregated level.…”

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Sensitivity Analysis of a Land-Use Change Model with and without Agents to Assess Land Abandonment and Long-Term Re-Forestation in a Swiss Mountain Region

Brändle

Langendijk

Peter³

et al. 2015

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Land abandonment and the subsequent re-forestation are important drivers behind the loss of ecosystem services in mountain regions. Agent-based models can help to identify global change impacts on farmland abandonment and can test policy and management options to counteract this development. Realigning the representation of human decision making with time scales of ecological processes such as reforestation presents a major challenge in this context. Models either focus on the agent-specific behavior anchored in the current generation of farmers at the expense of representing longer scale environmental processes or they emphasize the simulation of long-term economic and forest developments OPEN ACCESSLand 2015, 4 476 where representation of human behavior is simplified in time and space. In this context, we compare the representation of individual and aggregated decision-making in the same model structure and by doing so address some implications of choosing short or long term time horizons in land-use modeling. Based on survey data, we integrate dynamic agents into a comparative static economic sector supply model in a Swiss mountain region. The results from an extensive sensitivity analysis show that this agent-based land-use change model can reproduce observed data correctly and that both model versions are sensitive to the same model parameters. In particular, in both models the specification of opportunity costs determines the extent of production activities and land-use changes by restricting the output space. Our results point out that the agent-based model can capture short and medium term developments in land abandonment better than the aggregated version without losing its sensitivity to important socio-economic drivers. For comparative static approaches, extensive sensitivity analysis with respect to opportunity costs, i.e., the measure of benefits forgone due to alternative uses of labor is essential for the assessment of the impact of climate change on land abandonment and re-forestation in mountain regions.

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Site-specific and regionally optimal direct payments for mountain agriculture

Cited by 32 publications

References 2 publications

Sustainable Land Use in Mountain Regions Under Global Change: Synthesis Across Scales and Disciplines

Sustainable Land Use in Mountain Regions Under Global Change: Synthesis Across Scales and Disciplines

Incentives for low-input land-use types and their influence on the attractiveness of landscapes

Sensitivity Analysis of a Land-Use Change Model with and without Agents to Assess Land Abandonment and Long-Term Re-Forestation in a Swiss Mountain Region

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