author = { Mewes, Melanie AND Drechsler, Martin AND Johst, Karin AND Sturm, Astrid AND Wätzold, Frank Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ },

title = { A systematic approach for assessing spatially and temporally differentiated opportunity costs of biodiversity conservation measures in grasslands },

publisher = {},

keywords = { Biodiversität , Naturschutz , Landwirtschaft , Landnutzung , Agrarpolitik , Umweltpolitik , Maßnahme , Kosten , Erfolgskontrolle , Sachsen , Bundesrepublik Deutschland , biodiversity conservation , cost-effectiveness , ecological-economic modelling , agri-environment scheme , grassland , DSS-Ecopay },

year = {2013},

abstract = {Veröffentlichungsversion},

abstract = {begutachtet},

abstract = {Biodiversity loss in Europe is caused to a large extent by agricultural intensification. To halt this loss and to support species and habitat types in agricultural areas, agri-environment schemes have been introduced in Europe to compensate farmers for (costly) conservation measures. Currently, agri-environment schemes for grassland in general consider only a few conservation measures with fixed dates and a payment for average opportunity costs, e.g. for later mowing. A systematic approach that calculates farmers` opportunity costs in relation to the timing of grassland use is still lacking. We fill this gap by developing a systematic agri-economic cost assessment approach. Our approach is general enough to be applicable on a large spatial scale but can still sensitively differentiate among different timings. Moreover it is straightforward and time-saving enough to be suitable for implementation in regional scale optimisation procedures. We demonstrate this by applying the systematic cost assessment in the decision support software DSS-Ecopay using the example of grassland species and habitats conservation in the German federal state of Saxony.},

booktitle = {UFZ Discussion Papers ; Bd. 15/2013},

address = { Leipzig },

url = { http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2 }