[PDF][PDF] The devil in the detail: a practical guide on designing payments for environmental services

S Engel - … Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2016 - nowpublishers.com
Payments for environmental services (PES) have become a popular approach to address
environmental degradation. However, evidence on its effectiveness is scarce and rather …

From payments for ecosystem services to eco-compensation: Conceptual change or paradigm shift?

H Yu, W **e, L Yang, A Du, CMVB Almeida… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) is an effective policy in conserving ecosystem
services and is increasingly applied globally. The concept of PES was firstly defined in 2005 …

Payments by modelled results: A novel design for agri-environmental schemes

B Bartkowski, N Droste, M Ließ, W Sidemo-Holm… - Land Use Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
From a theoretical point of view, result-based agri-environmental payments are clearly
preferable to action-based payments. However, they suffer from two major practical …

Perspectives of lignite post-mining landscapes under changing environmental conditions: what can we learn from a comparison between the Rhenish and Lusatian …

W Gerwin, T Raab, K Birkhofer, C Hinz… - Environmental Sciences …, 2023 - Springer
Background The decision of the German federal government to cease lignite mining until
2038 or—if possible—already earlier until 2030, will cause manifold transition processes in …

[HTML][HTML] Landscape context and farm characteristics are key to farmers' adoption of agri-environmental schemes

A Paulus, N Hagemann, MC Baaken, S Roilo… - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Agri-environmental schemes (AES) belong to the main instruments of the European Union's
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to foster sustainable farming practices that contribute to …

Using machine learning to identify heterogeneous impacts of agri-environment schemes in the EU: a case study

C Stetter, P Mennig, J Sauer - European Review of Agricultural …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Legislators in the European Union have long been concerned with the
environmental impact of farming activities and introduced so-called agri-environment …

Impacts of the EU's common agricultural policy “greening” reform on agricultural development, biodiversity, and ecosystem services

J Hristov, Y Clough, U Sahlin, HG Smith… - Applied Economic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has had limited success in mitigating
agriculture's environmental degradation. In this paper we simulate the impacts of the 2013 …

Can cattle grazing benefit grassland butterflies?

SK Bussan - Journal of Insect Conservation, 2022 - Springer
Grassland insects face some of the most severe declines in species diversity and total
abundance, in part due to agriculture. Livestock grazing is the largest agricultural land use …

Adoption and potential of agri‐environmental schemes in Europe: Cross‐regional evidence from interviews with farmers

B Bartkowski, M Beckmann, M Bednář, S Biffi… - People and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In Europe and elsewhere, agri‐environmental schemes (AES) are designed to reduce
agriculture's impacts on the environment. Designing effective schemes requires an …

A bird's eye view of farm size and biodiversity: The ecological legacy of the iron curtain

F Noack, A Larsen, J Kamp… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Agriculture is a major threat to global biodiversity. A common claim is that large‐scale agro‐
industrial farming is mainly responsible for the biodiversity decline, while smaller family …