The transferability and performance of payment-by-results biodiversity conservation procurement auctions: empirical evidence from northernmost Germany
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Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2009. (Working paper series in economics; No. 119).
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T1 - The transferability and performance of payment-by-results biodiversity conservation procurement auctions: empirical evidence from northernmost Germany
AU - Groth, Markus
N1 - Literaturverz. S. 23 - 29
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - 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 outperforms the original case-study.
AB - 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 outperforms the original case-study.
KW - Economics
KW - agri-environmental policy
KW - discriminatory-price auction
KW - ecological services
KW - experimental economics
KW - multi-unit auction
KW - payment-by-results
KW - plant biodiversity
KW - rural development
M3 - Working papers
T3 - Working paper series in economics
BT - The transferability and performance of payment-by-results biodiversity conservation procurement auctions: empirical evidence from northernmost Germany
PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
CY - Lüneburg
ER -