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| Title: | | The transferability and performance of payment-by-results biodiversity conservation procurement auctions: empirical evidence from northernmost Germany  |
| Authors: | | Groth, Markus |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | University of Lüneburg Working Paper Series in Economics 119 |
| Abstract: | | Managed grasslands contribute in a number of ways to the biodiversity of European agricultural landscapes and provide a wide range of ecosystem services that are also of socio-economic value. Against the background of a rapid biodiversity loss in agricultural landscapes, increasing attention is being paid to farming practices that enhance ecosystem services. Therefore developing cost-effective conservation payment schemes is the main challenge facing present European agri-environmental policy. This paper deals with the transferability of a payment scheme that combines a payment-by-results approach with the use of discriminatory-price conservation procurement auctions in order to improve the cost-effectiveness of conservation schemes for grassland plant biodiversity. Hence the design, implementation and results of the adapted case-study payment scheme in the county Steinburg in the northernmost federal state of Germany (Schleswig-Holstein) will be focussed. Results concerning the ecological-effectiveness of the payment-by-results approach as well bid-prices and potential cost-effectiveness gains by the use of conservation procurement auctions point out that it was possible to transfer the payment scheme successfully to another region, whereby the adapted case-study even. |
| Subjects: | | Agri-environmental policy discriminatory-price auction ecological services experimental economics multi-unit auction payment-by-results plant biodiversity rural development outperforms the original case-study |
| JEL: | | C93 D44 H41 Q24 Q28 Q57 R52 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Paper Series in Economics, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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