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| Title: | Assessing farm sustainability with value oriented methods |
| Authors: | Van Passel, Steven |
| Keywords: | sustainability assessment
agriculture
value oriented |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Abstract: | Agricultural policy makers aim to combine
strong economic performance with a sustainable use of natural
resources. An important step is to move from trying to define
sustainability towards developing concrete tools for measuring
and promoting achievements in sustainability. Hence,
sustainability assessment is inevitably based on strong
simplifications both of the theoretical paradigm and of the
characteristics of systems of concern. The most known
approaches to assess sustainability performance are burden
orientated: they assess the costs or potential harm of resource
use. These burden-oriented approaches focus on the level of
environmental impacts caused by an economic activity
compared to another set of environmental impacts, while
value-oriented impact assessment analyses how much value
has been created with this set of environmental impacts as
compared with the use of these resources by other companies.
In this paper, an outline of the possibilities and limitations of
value-oriented methods to assess farm sustainability will be
discussed. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/44141 |
| Institution/Association: | European Association of Agricultural Economists>2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium |
| Total Pages: | 5 |
| Collections: | 2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium
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