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Abstract
The scattering of nature areas in the
Netherlands and the increased demand for nature
lead to a governmental project in 1990 to complete a
network of nature favouring areas, the ecological
main structure, in 2018. The financial and economic
costs and benefits of this project were analysed.
Targets for purchasing of agricultural land and
conversion into nature were adjusted several times
as the land price doubled between 1995 and 2000.
The purchasing rate still has to double, which will
probably drive up the land price even further. The
alternative is long-term contracts with farmers or
private landowners for nature conservation.