An ecological-economic programming approach to modelling landscape-level biodiversity conservation

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511551079.019

16 - An ecological-economic programming approach to modelling landscape-level biodiversity conservation

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 August 2009

Ernst-August Nuppenau and

Edited by

Unai Pascual and

Ernst-August Nuppenau: Affiliation:
Professor of Agricultural Economics Department of Agricultural Policy and Market Research, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Marc Helmer: Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Policy and Market Research Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
Andreas Kontoleon: Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Unai Pascual: Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Timothy Swanson: Affiliation:
University College London

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Introduction

The intention of this chapter is to introduce a new unified approach to economic and ecological modelling of field sizes, farming intensities, landscape patterns and nature elements. The approach aims to enable governments to specify objective functions for biodiversity and landscape management. These functions will include ecologically retrievable criteria for payments, shall help to determine payments and must fit into farmers' concerns of capturing economies of scale to maintain competitiveness. In the chapter we first outline why this is a problem and review, to a certain extent, what has been accomplished with respect to integrated modelling so far. We then show, as an innovation, how a geometrical presentation of land use may help in improving the specification of interfaces between economic and ecological modelling compartments. Then we turn to elaborate on a nature production function linked to landscape elements and demonstrate how farmers can be paid for these elements. Using this analysis, it can be shown how farm modelling can be redirected to landscape design. Finally we outline how the previous deliberations can be used to achieve a principal-agent specification of objective functions for farmers seeking to maximise income from land and a government that wants to optimise the level of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. A special reference is made to farm size and the question of how diversity in land use and landscapes is linked to the number of farmers and field sizes.

Type: Chapter
Information: Biodiversity Economics
Principles, Methods and Applications
, pp. 446 - 478

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511551079.019 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2007

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