Revealed payments for biodiversity protection in Swedish forests

Sammanfattning

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.

Publicerad i

Forest Policy and Economics
2012, Volym: 23, sidor: 55-62

SLU författare

• Gren, Ing-Marie

  • Institutionen för ekonomi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Carlsson, Mattias

  • Institutionen för ekonomi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Globala målen

SDG12 Hållbar konsumtion och produktion
SDG15 Ekosystem och biologisk mångfald


UKÄ forskningsämne

Nationalekonomi


Publikationens identifierare

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

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

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