Revealed payments for biodiversity protection in Swedish forests

Abstract

This paper explores the determinants of payments accepted by private land owners for providing biodiversity in Swedish forests. The explanatory power of variables reflecting economic, attitude, learning, spatial autocorrelation, and biological factors are tested by econometric analyses on a panel data set on actual and accepted payments for two types of conservation programs; mandatory set aside and voluntary agreements. The results show both similarities and differences between the two programs; significant and robust results are that payments are increasing in the size of protected areas, and decreasing in spatial autocorrelations. A main difference is that the environmental preferences and ecological productivity have significant effects on actual payments under the voluntary but not the mandatory program.

Published in

Forest Policy and Economics
2012, Volume: 23, pages: 55-62

SLU Authors

• Gren, Ing-Marie

  • Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Carlsson, Mattias

  • Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG12 Responsible consumption and production
SDG15 Life on land


UKÄ Subject classification

Economics


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2012.06.003

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/41633