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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | MARKETED OUTPUTS AND NON-MARKETED ECOSYSTEMS SERVICES
Autores: | Sauer,   Johannes; Wossink,   Ada.
Data: | 2010-03-29
Ano: | 2010
Palavras-chave: | Ecosystem services; Green payments; Bio-economic modelling; Economies of scale and scope; Program evaluation.; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q18; Q57; Q58.
Resumo: | We provide a new approach for assessing the cost of marginal ecosystem changes and the effectiveness of green payment schemes. The approach is based on a theoretical and empirical analysis of the bio-economic production interactions between marketed outputs and non-marketed ecosystem services at the micro level. To frame the economic nature of the problem, we employ a generalized joint production model in combination with cost minimization. The generalized joint production framework allows for the consideration of complementary, substitutive and competitive relationships between agricultural production and non-marketed ecosystem services generation and avoids double counting. From this theoretical model we distinguish three theoretical cases depending on the imposed minimum acceptable level of the non-marketed ecosystem services. We employ farm level panel data for the UK to empirically investigate these cases. More specifically, to represent and evaluate the production structure, we estimate first- and second-order elasticities derived from a flexible transformation function. Results show that the majority of farms produce agricultural output and ecosystem services in a complementary relationship. Generation of multiple ecosystem services on the same farm showed either a substitutive or competitive relationship. Changing the composition of the ecosystem services output would have very different implications for individual farms.
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/91807
Relação: | Agricultural Economics Society&gt;84th Annual Conference, March 29-31, 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland
Formato: | 21