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Towards More Efficient Compensation Programmes for Tourists' Benefits From Agriculture in Europe

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Franz Hackl
Gerald Pruckner

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This paper covers nonmarket services provided by farmers for recreational purposes in several Central European regions. A regionally specified general equilibrium model is used to derive the efficiency conditions for a competitive equilibrium to guarantee a Pareto optimal outcome. Moreover, we present green agricultural compensation programmes in Europe and their assessment from an economic perspective. The empirical analysis focuses on tourists' willingness to pay (WTP) for the provision of agricultural landscape-enhancing services in Austria. A comparison of these measures with current voluntary compensation payments made to farmers for the preservation of an agricultural countryside in several Austrian tourism communities suggests that the hypothetical contingent valuation (CV) results represent a valid order of magnitude for the value of recreation-related agricultural services. As far as agricultural policy is concerned, environmental improvement, the stabilization of agricultural income levels, diminishing intrasectoral income differences, and the development of economically disadvantaged rural regions can be expected from directly subsidizing farmers for the provision of countryside amenities. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1997

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Article provided by European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists in its journal Environmental and Resource Economics.

Volume (Year): 10 (1997)
Issue (Month): 2 (September)
Pages: 189-205
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Keywords: landscape-enhancing agricultural activities; nonmarket services; contingent valuation (CV); agricultural compensation programmes;

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  4. Wood, Nancy & Halbrendt, Catherine & Liang, Kathleen & Wang, Qingbin, 2000. "Interdependence Of Agriculture And Tourism: Quantifying The Value Of The Agricultural Working Landscape In Vermont," 2000 Annual meeting, July 30-August 2, Tampa, FL 21814, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association). [Downloadable!]
  5. Kan, Iddo & Haim, David & Rapaport-Rom, Mickey & Shechter, Mordechai, 2008. "Environmental Amenities and Optimal Agricultural Land Use: The Case of Israel," Discussion Papers 42832, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Agricultural Economics and Management. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Peterson, Jeffrey M. & Boisvert, Richard N., 2000. "Optimal Land Conversion At The Rural-Urban Fringe With Positive And Negative Agricultural Externalities," 2000 Annual meeting, July 30-August 2, Tampa, FL 21722, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association). [Downloadable!]
  7. Peterson, Jeffrey M., 1999. "Optimal Agricultural Land Pricing Policies Under Multiple Externalities In A Global Economy," 1999 Annual meeting, August 8-11, Nashville, TN 21613, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association). [Downloadable!]
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