Brady, Mark
- Institutionen för ekonomi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
- Lunds Universitet
Sammanfattning
The EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has had limited success in mitigating agriculture's environmental degradation. In this paper we simulate the impacts of the 2013 "greening" reform on biodiversity and ecosystem services in environmentally contrasting landscapes. We do this by integrating an agent-based model of structural change with spatial ecological production functions, and show that the reform will likely fail to deliver substantial environmental benefits. Our study implies that greening measures need to be tailored to local conditions and priorities, to generate environmental improvements. Such spatial targeting of measures is though incompatible with the design of a common direct payments scheme.
Nyckelord
agent‐based modeling; biodiversity; CAP reform; Ecological Focus Areas (EFA); ecosystem services; landscape; spatial production functions
Publicerad i
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
2020, volym: 42, nummer: 4, sidor: 716-738
Utgivare: WILEY
SLU författare
UKÄ forskningsämne
Miljö- och naturvårdsvetenskap
Publikationens identifierare
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13037
Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/109337