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Provedor de dados: 	Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)	
País: 	United States	
Título: 	Ermittlung der Nachfrage nach ökologischen Gütern der Landwirtschaft – Das Northeim-Projekt

The demand for ecological goods in decentralised agrienvironmental payment schemes – the Northeim project	
Autores: 	Fischer,   Anke; Hespelt,   Sonja K.; Marggraf,   Rainer.	
Data: 	2010-12-18	
Ano: 	2003	
Palavras-chave: 	Environmental services; Decentralisation; Contingent valuation; Merit goods; Environmental Economics and Policy.	
Resumo: 	This paper presents a case study on the development and implementation of a decentralised and outcome-based agri-environmental payment scheme in a project region in central Germany. A research group from Goettingen University together with local actors designed the scheme which complies with the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy. The core of the programme is the creation of a market for ecological goods, in this case: of plant diversity standards in agriculture. Supply is provided by the local farmers, who, in an open competitive bidding, offer to produce as much as they are willing to of the commodity in question. The local population has to be seen as the beneficiary of these environmental goods. In the project, it is represented by a Regional Advisory Board which expresses the demand for plant diversity (i) by defining the goods and (ii) by allocating the funds to the respective goods. Hence, these plant diversity goods are treated as merit goods. To justify this approach, results from a contingent valuation study that focused on the respondents’ decision behaviour are applied. These results show that the utility expected from the provision of these goods is substantial and that ecological goods are considered as personally relevant. Based on these findings, the paper discusses the provision of ecological goods as merit – as opposed to private – goods.	
Tipo: 	Journal Article	
Idioma: 	Alemão	
Identificador: 	ISSN 0002-1121

http://purl.umn.edu/98083	
Relação: 	German Journal of Agricultural Economics&gt; Volume 52, Issue 8, 2003	
Formato: 	10