Wetland Investment Support Schemes: Adoption and Spatial Interactions

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 agrienvironmental 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

SLU Authors

• Elofsson, Katarina

  • Aarhus University

Global goals (SDG)

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