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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Berichte
URL http://hdl.handle.net/10419/45226
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Titel (primär) An agglomeration payment for cost-effective biodiversity conservation in spatially structured landscapes
Autor Drechsler, M.; Johst, K.; Wätzold, F.; Shogren, J.F.
Quelle UFZ-Diskussionspapiere
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
Department OEKON; OESA
Band/Volume 4/2007
Seite bis 25
Sprache englisch
Abstract Compensation schemes in which land owners receive payments for voluntarily managing their land in a biodiversity-enhancing manner have become one of the most important instruments for biodiversity conservation worldwide. One key challenge when designing such schemes is to account for the spatial arrangement of habitats bearing in mind that for given total habitat area connected habitats are ecologically more valuable than isolated habitats. To integrate the spatial dimension in compensation schemes and based on the idea of an agglomeration bonus we consider a scheme in which land-owners only receive payments if managed patches are arranged in a specific spatial configuration. We compare the cost-effectiveness of agglomeration payments with spatially homogeneous payments on a conceptual level and for a real world case and find that efficiency gains of agglomeration payments are positive or zero but never negative. In the real world case, agglomeration payments lead to cost-savings of up to 70% compared to spatially homogeneous payments.
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Drechsler, M., Johst, K., Wätzold, F., Shogren, J.F. (2007):
An agglomeration payment for cost-effective biodiversity conservation in spatially structured landscapes
UFZ-Diskussionspapiere 4/2007
UFZ Leipzig-Halle GmbH, Leipzig, 25 pp.