• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: BESTMAP: behavioural, Ecological and Socio-economic Tools for Modelling Agricultural Policy
  • Contributor: Ziv, Guy; Beckmann, Michael; Bullock, James; Cord, Anna; Delzeit, Ruth; Domingo, Cristina; Dreßler, Gunnar; Hagemann, Nina; Masó, Joan; Müller, Birgit; Neteler, Markus; Sapundzhieva, Anna; Stoev, Pavel; Stenning, Jon; Trajković, Milica; Václavík, Tomáš
  • imprint: Pensoft Publishers, 2020
  • Published in: Research Ideas and Outcomes
  • Language: Not determined
  • DOI: 10.3897/rio.6.e52052
  • ISSN: 2367-7163
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  • Description: <jats:p>Half of the European Union (EU) land and the livelihood of 10 million farmers is threatened by unsustainable land-use intensification, land abandonment and climate change. Policy instruments, including the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) have so far failed to stop this environmental degradation. BESTMAP will: 1) Develop a behavioural theoretical modelling framework to take into account complexity of farmers’ decision-making; 2) Develop, adapt and customize a suite of opensource, flexible, interoperable and customisable computer models linked to existing data e.g. LPIS/IACS and remote sensing e.g. Sentinel-2; 3) Link economic, individual-farm agent-based, biophysical ecosystem services and biodiversity and geostatistical socio-economic models; 4) Produce a simple-to-use dashboard to compare scenarios of Agri-Environmental Schemes adoption; 5) Improve the effectiveness of future EU rural policies’ design, monitoring and implementation.</jats:p>
  • Access State: Open Access