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Porträtt av Henrik Smith. Foto.

Henrik Smith

Professor

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Improving agricultural pollution abatement through result-based payment schemes

Författare

  • William Sidemo Holm
  • Henrik G. Smith
  • Mark Brady

Summary, in English

Action-based payments that compensate farmers for adopting land-management measures to preserve and en- hance the environment have been criticized for being ineffective. The root of the problem is that farmers are not paid for achieving a desired environmental benefit, but compensated for their costs of management. There is growing interest in formulating result-based economic incentives. By paying for an environmental benefit and allowing flexibility in how to achieve it, farmers are given an incentive to exploit their comparative advantages for achieving a desired environmental benefit cost-effectively. However, the feasibility and relative effectiveness of result-based payments for reducing agricultural pollution is contentious. In this study, we designed and evaluated a result-based payment scheme for nonpoint-source pollution abatement from arable land. In a case study in southern Sweden, the cost-effectiveness of the new scheme was compared with that of an existing action-based scheme for vegetated buffer strips to prevent the pollutant, particulate phosphorus, from reaching water resources. The results suggest that result-based payment schemes based on modeled outcomes of pollution abatement are feasible and will considerably improve cost-effectiveness compared to action-based schemes, by relocating buffer strips to where they are more effective and not simply where they have the lowest costs for farmers.

Avdelning/ar

  • Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Biodiversitet
  • AgriFood Economics Centre, SLU
  • Biodiversitet och bevarandevetenskap

Publiceringsår

2018-05-08

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

209-219

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Land Use Policy

Volym

77

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Agricultural Science
  • Environmental Sciences

Nyckelord

  • Performance based policy
  • Nonpoint source pollution
  • Nutrient runoff
  • Buffer strip
  • Agri-environmental scheme
  • Cost-effective

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Biodiversity and Conservation Science

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0264-8377