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Research article - Peer-reviewed, 2022

Wetland investment support schemes: adoption and spatial interactions

Zeleke Aklilu, Abenezer; Elofsson, Katarina

Abstract

Agri-environmental investment support that compensates landowners for the costs of wetland creation and restoration is considered an effective policy for increasing biodiversity and reducing nonpoint emissions in agricultural landscapes. This study assesses the extent to which such an agri-environmental scheme is propagated across landowners and examines determinants of the adoption of the policy in Sweden. Using spatiotemporal variations in the implementation of the scheme, we show that endogenous spatial interaction across landowners helps propagate the adoption of the scheme. We did not find spatial interactions to play a role in the disadoption of the scheme.

Published in

Land Economics
2022, Volume: 98, number: 2, pages: 292-313

    Sustainable Development Goals

    SDG6 Clean water and sanitation
    SDG15 Life on land

    UKÄ Subject classification

    Economics

    Publication identifier

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/le.98.2.051520-0066R

    Permanent link to this page (URI)

    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/118735