Sites side by side: Can an agglomeration bonus with an adjacency rule connect agri-environmental sites?

IF 6.6 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-07-05 DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108287

Mara-Magdalena Häusler, Astrid Zabel

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Abstract

Many species need to cross landscapes for dispersal or seasonal migration. In view of the biodiversity crisis and increasing landscape fragmentation, incentives are needed to foster landscape connectivity and improve spatial coordination of protected sites across privately owned land. A large body of theoretical work and lab studies proposes that an agglomeration bonus could incentivize farmers to enroll adjacent fields to enhance landscape connectivity. This study empirically investigates a network bonus scheme in Switzerland with a dataset covering 322 program areas. In some program areas, farmers can receive the network bonus only if they are compliant with an adjacency rule of 100 m between sites, a policy that corresponds to an agglomeration bonus. In other areas, this rule does not apply, i.e. farmers can apply for the same bonus but irrespective of the location of their field vis-à-vis others. We empirically compare the impact of this policy with a double robust estimation. Counter to the expectations from the theoretical literature, our results show no impact of the agglomeration bonus on connectivity.

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毗邻的地点：具有相邻规则的集聚奖励能否将农业环境地点连接起来？

许多物种需要穿越地貌进行传播或季节性迁徙。鉴于生物多样性危机和日益严重的景观破碎化问题，需要采取激励措施来促进景观连通性，并改善私有土地上保护地的空间协调。大量的理论研究和实验室研究提出，集聚奖金可以激励农民加入相邻的田地，以加强景观的连通性。本研究利用涵盖 322 个项目区的数据集对瑞士的网络奖金计划进行了实证调查。在一些计划地区，农民只有在遵守地块之间相邻 100 米的规则时才能获得网络奖金，这一政策与集聚奖金相对应。而在其他地区，这一规则并不适用，也就是说，农民可以申请同样的奖金，而无需考虑其田地相对于其他田地的位置。我们通过双重稳健估算对这一政策的影响进行了实证比较。与理论文献的预期相反，我们的结果显示集聚奖金对连通性没有影响。

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Ecological Economics 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

12.00

自引率

5.70%

发文量

313

审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： Ecological Economics is concerned with extending and integrating the understanding of the interfaces and interplay between "nature''s household" (ecosystems) and "humanity''s household" (the economy). Ecological economics is an interdisciplinary field defined by a set of concrete problems or challenges related to governing economic activity in a way that promotes human well-being, sustainability, and justice. The journal thus emphasizes critical work that draws on and integrates elements of ecological science, economics, and the analysis of values, behaviors, cultural practices, institutional structures, and societal dynamics. The journal is transdisciplinary in spirit and methodologically open, drawing on the insights offered by a variety of intellectual traditions, and appealing to a diverse readership. Specific research areas covered include: valuation of natural resources, sustainable agriculture and development, ecologically integrated technology, integrated ecologic-economic modelling at scales from local to regional to global, implications of thermodynamics for economics and ecology, renewable resource management and conservation, critical assessments of the basic assumptions underlying current economic and ecological paradigms and the implications of alternative assumptions, economic and ecological consequences of genetically engineered organisms, and gene pool inventory and management, alternative principles for valuing natural wealth, integrating natural resources and environmental services into national income and wealth accounts, methods of implementing efficient environmental policies, case studies of economic-ecologic conflict or harmony, etc. New issues in this area are rapidly emerging and will find a ready forum in Ecological Economics.