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What land-use pattern emerges with landscape-scale management? An ecosystem-service perspective

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  • Cong, Rong-Gang
  • Ekroos, Johan
  • Smith, Henrik
  • Brady, Mark

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It is argued that landscape-scale management (LSM) of habitat is better than farmscale management (FSM) when considering the externality of ecosystem services. Given this advantage, how to regulate individual farmers’ land-use decisions to achieve the LSM solution is an issue of common concern both for farmers and policymakers. Specifically, it needs to be determined if there exists a dominant landuse pattern that characterizes the LSM solution compared to FSM solution. In addition to the area of habitat, we design a land-use pattern index (LPI) to characterize the configuration of habitat and project it onto the sharing-sparing continuum. We find that the LSM solution is characterized by less intensive farming, and configurations of habitat are closer to land sharing. However, as crop dependency on ecosystem-services declines, the land-use patterns with LSM and FSM converge and the configurations of habitat start to resemble to land sparing. In addition, when habitat quality improves the configurations of habitat on the border farms become important. Finally, the less mobile service-providers are, the more farmers should focus on land-use patterns on their own farms. Our indices of land-use patterns could be integrated into the cross-compliance of CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) to better manage ecosystem-service in the future.

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  • Cong, Rong-Gang & Ekroos, Johan & Smith, Henrik & Brady, Mark, 2015. "What land-use pattern emerges with landscape-scale management? An ecosystem-service perspective," 2015 Conference, August 9-14, 2015, Milan, Italy 211549, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
  • Handle: RePEc:ags:iaae15:211549
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.211549
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    1. Bohan, David & Schmucki, Reto & Abay, Abrha & Termansen, Mette & Bane, Miranda & Charalabiis, Alice & Cong, Rong-Gang & Derocles, Stephane & Dorner, Zita & Forster, Matthieu & Gibert, Caroline & Harro, 2020. "Designing farmer-acceptable rotations that assure ecosystem service provision inthe face of climate change," MPRA Paper 112313, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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