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| Petursdottir, Thorunn; Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC); thorunn@live.com; Arnalds, Olafur; Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Agricultural University of Iceland; oa@lbhi.is; Baker, Susan; Cardiff School of Social Sciences; BakerSCM@cardiff.ac.uk; Montanarella, Luca; Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) ; luca.montanarella@jrc.ec.europa.eu. |
| Large-scale restoration projects are normally part of a complex social–ecological system where restoration goals are shaped by governmental policies, managed by the surrounding governance system, and implemented by the related actors. The process of efficiently restoring degraded ecosystems is, therefore, not only based on restoring ecological structure and functions but also relies on the functionality of the related policies, the relevant stakeholder groups, and the surrounding socioeconomic and political settings. In this research, we investigated the SES of rangeland restoration in Iceland to estimate whether social factors, such as stakeholders’ attitudes and behavior, can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of agri-environmental... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Agri-environmental policies; Ecological restoration; Evaluation; Natural resource management; Social– Ecological systems. |
| Ano: 2013 |
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| Mehl, Peter; Plankl, Reiner. |
| A large portion of the agri-structural policies and agri-environmental policies in the Federal Republic of Germany are decided within the framework of complex decision-making structures and fiscal responsibility at different political levels (the federal states, the national government, and the European Union), resulting in “double-interlocked federalism”. This paper describes the specific institutional configuration and its historical development, and presents a financial analysis of the development plans for rural areas in selected federal states to illustrate the increasing role of interlocked federalism. The interplay between the political levels took an unexpectedly flexible, and between the various states heterogeneous, form. All in all, however, the... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural structure policies; Agri-environmental policies; Interlocked federalism; Rural areas; Financial analysis; Federalism; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/98865 |
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| Arovuori, Kyösti. |
| In general, farmers are often found to be resistant to environmentally targeted agricultural policies. On the other hand, a part of farmers are clearly self-motivated to undertake farm practices that are beneficial to the environment and resource conservation. What motivates these farmers to participate? How much of this participation can be explained with attitudes, and where these attitudes arise from? In this paper, we analyze the effect of farmers‟ attitudes towards environmental policies and related issues on their farm level policy choice. The policy response analyzed is farmers‟ choice to implement voluntary contract-based special measures in the current agri-environmental support scheme. Our results show that farmers fall into different groups in... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Farmers; Agri-environmental policies; Policy choice; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114216 |
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| Lehtonen, Heikki. |
| Production linked supports are paid for agriculture in less favoured areas (LFA) in Finland in order to maintain agricultural production and farms. The CAP reform increased the importance of LFA payments and other payments which are still partly coupled to production. We evaluate if any significant environmental damage can be avoided without risking maintenance agricultural production in less favoured areas. We also evaluate the relative effectiveness of alternative policy measures to decrease nutrient surplus, promote biodiversity, and maintain production and farm income. The policy options evaluated are full decoupling, fertiliser tax, both combined and explicit payments for reduced nutrient surpluses. The impacts of the options are compared to the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agri-environmental policies; Nutrient surplus; Agricultural sector modelling; Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44150 |
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