An agglomeration payment for cost-effective biodiversity conservation in spatially structured landscapes

Drechsler, Martín; Wätzold, Frank; Johst, Karin; Shogren, Jason F.

doi:10.1016/j.reseneeco.2009.11.015

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“…Agglomeration bonuses (Parkhurst et al, 2002;Warziniack et al, 2007) may ensure coordinated management but do not necessarily require land manager cooperation or buy-in for the joint contribution, since applications can be prepared by consultants without the need for individuals to ever meet and talk. In one case study, Drechsler et al (2010) found that agglomeration bonuses led to cost savings of up to 70% compared to homogeneous payments where payment rates were not linked to the way in which habitats were configured across the landscape. However, Windle et al (2009) and Reeson et al (2011) warned that, where such systems operate via auctions, they may be exploited by land owners, located in strategic positions, who may be able to demand high payments for their involvement, reducing the efficiency of the scheme.…”

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Improving the link between payments and the provision of ecosystem services in agri-environment schemes

Moxey²,

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. 2014. Improving the link between payments and the provision of ecosystem services in agri-environment schemes.Contact CEH NORA team at noraceh@ceh.ac.ukThe NERC and CEH trademarks and logos ('the Trademarks') are registered trademarks of NERC in the UK and other countries, and may not be used without the prior written consent of the Trademark owner.Improving the link between payments and the provision of ecosystem services in agri-environment schemes in UK peatlands AbstractThis paper considers how agri-environment schemes under the Common Agricultural Policy could be adapted to derive a higher return of ecosystem services from agricultural land, through deliberation with members of the public, land owners, managers and other stakeholders: i) paying for the ecosystem services that are valued most by society; ii) spatially targeting payments to locations where ecosystem services can most efficiently be provided; and iii) providing incentives for cross-boundary collaboration over the provision of ecosystem services that need to be managed at catchment or wider spatial scales. Using UK upland peatlands as a case study, and drawing on experience tackling these issues in the new Glastir agri-environment scheme in Wales, the paper attempts to find a balance between current input-based schemes that pay for land management activities on the basis of income foregone and output-based schemes that pay by results. The paper reviews evidence that spatially targeted, output-based payments may be more economically efficient than current approaches, but identifies a number of challenges, including: scientific uncertainty; pricing of ecosystem services; timing of payments; increased risk to land managers; compliance with World Trade Organisation regulations; and barriers to cross-boundary collaboration in the management of ecosystem services at habitat, catchment or landscape scales. A number of options are reviewed to overcome these challenges, including: the use of process-based models, pressureresponse functions and expert knowledge to establish causal links between management and ecosystem service delivery and reduce the costs of monitoring; the use of competitive bidding or non-market valuation techniques to set prices for ecosystem service delivery; insurance schemes; combining agri-environment schemes with funding from private Payment for Ecosystem Service schemes; and independent facilitation of groups of potential applicants across property boundaries in scheme options that are co-designed with the land management community. Drawing on examples from UK peatlands and experience designing the Glastir scheme, the paper 2 proposes a number of ways in which agri-environment schemes around the world that make payments on the basis of management inputs can better link payments to the provision of ecosystem services.

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Improving the link between payments and the provision of ecosystem services in agri-environment schemes

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“…This generates context dependent responses of management interventions (Tscharntke et al, 2012). For example, populations of serviceproviding units may only maintain viable sizes given that enough habitats are preserved across multiple land-owners (Drechsler et al, 2010). Hence, to optimize ecosystem service provision at larger spatial scales, the identification of conditions under which land-owners benefit from co-operation will be an important future topic in ecosystem services research (e.g., Stallman, 2011;Sutherland et al, 2012;Cong et al, 2014).…”

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Ecosystem servicesâ€”current challenges and opportunities for ecological research

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† These authors have contributed equally to this work.The concept of ecosystem services was originally developed to illustrate the benefits that natural ecosystems generate for society and to raise awareness for biodiversity and ecosystem conservation. In this article we identify major challenges and opportunities for ecologists involved in empirical or modeling ecosystem service research. The first challenge arises from the fact that the ecosystem service concept has not been generated in the context of managed systems. Ecologists need to identify the effect of anthropogenic interventions in order to propose practices to benefit service-providing organisms and associated services. The second challenge arises from the need to evaluate relationships between indicators of ecosystem services that are collected in ecological studies while accounting for uncertainties of ecological processes that underlie these services. We suggest basing the assessment of ecosystem services on the utilization of sets of indicators that cover aspects of service-providing units, ecosystem management and landscape modification. The third challenge arises from the limited understanding of the nature of relationships between services and a lack of a general statistical framework to address these links. To manage ecosystem service provisioning, ecologists need to establish whether services respond to a shared driver or if services are directly linked to each other. Finally, studies relating biodiversity to ecosystem services often focus on services at small spatial or short temporal scales, but research on the protection of services is often directed toward services providing benefits at large spatial scales. Ecological research needs to address a range of spatial and temporal scales to provide a multifaceted understanding of how nature promotes human well-being. Addressing these challenges in the future offers a unique opportunity for ecologists to act as promoters for the understanding about how to conserve benefits gained from nature.

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“…The model allows for all sorts of connectivity assumptions, but in the simulations in the following sections we assume queen contiguity, that is, we allow for both horizontal and diagonal connections (cf. Parkhurst et al 2002, Drechsler et al 2010, Iftekhar and Tisdell 2014.…”

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“…However, ecological efficiency might not be reached when procurement from the lowest bidders delivers a fragmented outcome and crucial pathways to connect different habitat patches are not formed (Margules and Pressey 2000, Williams and Snyder 2005, Conrad et al 2012. 1 Mechanisms in which the payment received for conserving a plot depends on the number of retired neighboring plots (so-called agglomeration bonuses) can help reduce this potential fragmentation problem (Parkhurst et al 2002, Parkhurst and Shogren 2007, Wätzold and Drechsler 2005, Drechsler et al 2010. 2 Experimental studies on the effectiveness and efficiency of agglomeration bonuses typically use fixed corridor values and opportunity costs, and they also impose that participation is mandatory (cf.…”

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Buyouts and Agglomeration Bonuses in Wildlife Corridor Auctions

Dijk¹,

Ansink²,

Soest

2017

SSRN Journal

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We present a general model of bidding behavior in wildlife corridor auctions. Given (i) some spatial configuration of landowners in a landscape, (ii) the landowners' opportunity costs, and (iii) the value of establishing the corridor, our model predicts individual landowners' bids, overall participation rates in the auction, as well as the expected net benefits to the conservation agency. We find that market efficiency of the auction increases in the number of potential corridors. We use simulations to compare a benchmark auction with two policy scenarios in a hypothetical landscape. In one scenario, members of a winning corridor receive an agglomeration bonus. In the other scenario, we buy out a pivotal landowner (one that is part of many potential corridors) prior to the auction. Given equal budgets for the agglomeration bonus and the buyout policy, an agglomeration bonus is less efficient than a buyout for conservation agencies facing low budgets, and vice versa. A risk-averse conservation agency is however always better off using a buyout policy.

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An agglomeration payment for cost-effective biodiversity conservation in spatially structured landscapes

Cited by 130 publications

References 37 publications

Improving the link between payments and the provision of ecosystem services in agri-environment schemes

Improving the link between payments and the provision of ecosystem services in agri-environment schemes

Ecosystem servicesâ€”current challenges and opportunities for ecological research

Buyouts and Agglomeration Bonuses in Wildlife Corridor Auctions

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