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| Title: | Assessing the costs of measuring biodiversity: methodological and empirical issues |
| Authors: | Targetti, Stefano
Viaggi, Davide
Cuming, David
Sarthou, J.P.
Choisis, J.P. |
| Keywords: | biodiversity measurement
research costs |
| Issue Date: | 2011-07-19T10:45:29Z |
| Abstract: | Organic and low-input farming practices are considered keystones for the conservation of biodiversity in
semi-natural systems. Accordingly, attention to the assessment of the benefits stemming from these activities is
increasing in order to provide a solid base for the adoption of agro-environmental incentives and to support their
monitoring and evaluation.
The evaluation of the positive effects of organic and low-input farming activities on biodiversity is limited mainly by:
the difficulty in proposing simple and widely-applicable indicators of biodiversity, and the substantial lack of data
concerning the costs of measuring biodiversity - an essential element for a cost-effectiveness analysis.
Moreover, the limited scientific literature available is based on ex-post analysis rather than on systematic data
collection.
The assessment of the costs of measuring biodiversity at farm-scale throughout Europe is one of the specific tasks of
the BioBio project (UE-FP7). In this work, we discuss methodological aspects and preliminary results based on data
gathered during fieldwork measurements of biodiversity in BioBio. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/109414 |
| Institution/Association: | European Association of Agricultural Economists>120th Seminar, September 2-4, 2010, Chania, Crete |
| Total Pages: | 10 |
| Collections: | 120th Seminar, September 2-4, 2010, Chania, Crete
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