Case study of agri-environmental payments: The United Kingdom

Dobbs, Thomas L.; Pretty, Jules

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.07.030

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“…There are also additional direct payments to buy environmental services from farmers though agri-environment schemes and countryside stewardship to help meet the requirements of the Water Framework Directive (WFD), (e.g., Table 1 for the UK). However, there is little evidence so far that this legislative burden and/or suite of stewardship measures have reduced farming intensity or improved water quality [24,35,72,[105][106][107], despite model projections. This contrasts markedly with the success of point source controls; as illustrated in Figure 3 the progressive reduction in river P concentrations in the River Avon, southern England due to point source controls contrasts with the more modest and delayed slow-down of river N concentrations in response to the reductions in N fertilizer use since 1988 (see Figure 1).…”

Section: Mitigating Nutrient Pressures From Farmingmentioning

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Agriculture and Eutrophication: Where Do We Go from Here?

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Abstract:The eutrophication of surface waters has become an endemic global problem. Nutrient loadings from agriculture are a major driver, but it remains very unclear what level of on-farm controls are necessary or can be justified to achieve water quality improvements. In this review article, we use the UK as an example of societies' multiple stressors on water quality to explore the uncertainties and challenges in achieving a sustainable balance between useable water resources, diverse aquatic ecosystems and a viable agriculture. Our analysis shows that nutrient loss from agriculture is a challenging issue if farm productivity and profitability is to be maintained and increased. Legacy stores of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in catchments may be sufficient to sustain algal blooms and murky waters for decades to come and more innovation is needed to drawdown and recover these nutrients. Agriculture's impact on eutrophication risk may also be overestimated in many catchments, and more accurate accounting of sources, their bioavailabilities and lag times is needed to direct proportioned mitigation efforts more effectively. Best practice farms may still be leaky and incompatible with good water quality in high-risk areas requiring some prioritization of society goals. All sectors of society must clearly use N and P more efficiently to develop long-term sustainable solutions to this complex issue and nutrient reduction strategies should take account of the whole catchment-to-coast continuum. However, the right balance of local interventions OPEN ACCESS Sustainability 2014, 6 5854 (including additional biophysical controls) will need to be highly site specific and better informed by research that unravels the linkages between sustainable farming practices, patterns of nutrient delivery, biological response and recovery trajectories in different types of waterbodies.

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Section: Mitigating Nutrient Pressures From Farmingmentioning

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Agriculture and Eutrophication: Where Do We Go from Here?

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“…The influence that design factors exert over a scheme's attractiveness have recently received attention within the context of agri-environmental payment schemes (AES) (Ruto & Garrod 2009). AES have much in common with PES in that they are voluntary, incentive-based, conditional and pay for delivery of a desired landscape/land use (Dobbs & Pretty 2008;Ferraro 2008). These recent studies have shown that AES design can indeed influence participation of service sellers.…”

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Investigating fishers’ preferences for the design of marine Payments for Environmental Services schemes

Barr

Mourato

2014

Ecological Economics

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We determine the effects of various management restrictions on adoption rates of marine Payments for Environmental Services (PES) schemes. Choice experiments are used in order to determine how fisher participation rates change under different marine PES programme designs. Various designs, with differing restriction rates, show different rates of adoption. However, fishers show a high utility loss associated with any move away from the current management situation, irrespective of restriction levels. This indicates that PES scheme costs may be high and creating an enabling environment could be important to reducing perceived losses, as could investment into conditional in-kind compensation mechanisms. The paper also shows choice experiments to be a useful tool in marine PES design.

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“…Previous case studies concerning PES schemes for recreation services are rather rare in the literature, and they usually comprise an ex-post valuation of a PES scheme and a review of the relevant implementation (see Hackl et al, 2007;Dobbs and Pretty, 2008). Hackl et al (2007) concluded that further research is needed to investigate how local compensation schemes could be implemented in non-tourist communities.…”

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Willingness to contribute to the management of recreational quality on private lands in Finland

Lankia

Neuvonen²,

Pouta

et al. 2014

JFE

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In Finland, privately owned nature areas are widely used for recreation due to open public access. However, since landowners are not obligated to take everyman's rights into consideration when making management decisions, the recreational quality of nature areas is not guaranteed for users. We examined whether individual recreationists on private lands would be willing purchase management actions from landowners that influence recreational quality. In addition to willingness to pay, we assessed willingness to con-tribute labor to such actions. The results demonstrated that about half of the recreationists who participated in our survey were willing to contribute labor and about 10% were willing to pay to direct the management of their typical recreation site on private lands. The mean willingness to pay was 92 euros per year and the mean willingness to contribute labor 3.5 days per year. A latent class regression model revealed that recreationists were not, however, completely homogeneous in their preferences for the actions or in their preferred contribution forms. On the basis of the results, there is moderate demand from recreationists for management to improve recreational quality and the potential for local landscape management arrangements that allow individual recreationists to contribute labor.

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Case study of agri-environmental payments: The United Kingdom

Cited by 126 publications

References 11 publications

Agriculture and Eutrophication: Where Do We Go from Here?

Agriculture and Eutrophication: Where Do We Go from Here?

Investigating fishers’ preferences for the design of marine Payments for Environmental Services schemes

Willingness to contribute to the management of recreational quality on private lands in Finland

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