Spatial differentiation of compensation payments for biodiversity enhancing land-use measures

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Given that both the costs and the benefits of biodiversity-enhancing land-use measures are subject to spatial variation, considerations of allocational efficiency call for spatially differentiated compensation payments for such measures. However, when deciding whether to implement uniform or spatially differentiated compensation payments, the regulator has to balance the allocational efficiency losses of uniform payments with the disadvantages of spatially differentiated payments. To help resolve this issue, this paper provides a conceptual framework that allows the extent of allocational efficiency losses associated with uniform payments for biodiversity-enhancing land-use measures to be assessed. A simple ecologicaleconomic model is presented which calculates the efficiency losses associated with uniform payments for different types of benefit and cost functions.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: UFZ Discussion Paper ; No. 3/2002

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Renewable Resources and Conservation: General
• Subject: Ecological-economic modelling ; compensation payments ; biodiversity ; Biodiversität ; Bodennutzung ; Subvention ; Naturschutz ; Raumwirtschaftstheorie ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Wätzold, Frank ; Drechsler, Martin
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): UFZ-Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle
• (where): Leipzig
• (when): 2002

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/45188
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