Valuation of EU Agricultural Landscape

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The present paper provides a meta-analysis of agricultural landscape valuation studies and through the estimated benefit transfer function it projects the value of EU landscape. The analyses are based on information from more than thirty European and non-European studies which use a stated preference approach to uncover society's willingness to pay (WTP) for agricultural landscape. Our calculations show that, the WTP in the EU varies between 134 and 201 €/ha with an average value of 149 €/ha in 2009. Furthermore the calculations indicate that the total value of EU landscape in 2009 is estimated to be in the range of €24.5 – 36.6 billion per year, with an average of €27.1 billion, representing around 8 percent of the total value of EU agricultural production and roughly half of the CAP expenditures.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: EERI Research Paper Series ; No. 20/2011

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies ; Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household ; Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets ; Valuation of Environmental Effects ; Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services; Biodiversity Conservation; Bioeconomics; Industrial Ecology
• Subject: Agricultural landscape ; valuation ; willingness to pay ; meta-analysis ; benefit transfer

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Ciaian, Pavel ; y Paloma, Sergio Gomez
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI)
• (where): Brussels
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/142627
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET