Agro-environmental policies seek to balance agriculture production and ecosystem services such as biodiversity conservation. Yet the measurement of biodiversity is both time-consuming and costly. It is timely to focus on the cost-effectiveness analysis of biodiversity indicators in order to ensure the optimisation of the scarce funds available for biodiversity conservation. We present a cost-effectiveness analysis of biodiversity indicators performed in two case studies. The work is based on real cost-data from the fieldworks efforts undertaken in the measurement of biodiversity indicators in grassland-based farming systems.
S. Targetti, D. Viaggi, D. Cuming (2011). A comparative cost-effectiveness analysis of biodiversity indicators in grassland farming systems.
A comparative cost-effectiveness analysis of biodiversity indicators in grassland farming systems
TARGETTI, STEFANO;VIAGGI, DAVIDE;CUMING, DAVID
2011
Abstract
Agro-environmental policies seek to balance agriculture production and ecosystem services such as biodiversity conservation. Yet the measurement of biodiversity is both time-consuming and costly. It is timely to focus on the cost-effectiveness analysis of biodiversity indicators in order to ensure the optimisation of the scarce funds available for biodiversity conservation. We present a cost-effectiveness analysis of biodiversity indicators performed in two case studies. The work is based on real cost-data from the fieldworks efforts undertaken in the measurement of biodiversity indicators in grassland-based farming systems.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
