Result-oriented agri-environmental schemes in Europe and their potential for promoting behavioural change
By R. Burton, G. Schwarz. 2013
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Abstract Increasing interest is being shown in result-oriented agri-environmental schemes. Such schemes have the advantage of encouraging farmers to innovate to produce environmental goods – thus promoting the development of new skills and knowledge and, theoretically, ensuring that farmers are paid for provision rather than for performing management behaviours that may, or may not, lead to provision. In Europe a number of projects have trialled result-based payments over the last decade and calls for a stronger connection between agri-environmental payments and outcomes are growing. However, while the amount of information available on result-oriented schemes is increasing, there is currently no overview of the approach in the literature. This paper seeks to address this gap through a review of existing literature. It discusses why we might consider the use of result-oriented schemes, outlines two key ‘problem areas’ (the increased risk schemes represent to farmers, and the difficulties of developing and monitoring indicators), and, finally, proposes a framework for examining the strength of results orientation based on three dimensions – proportion of result-oriented payments, sensitivity of payments, and duration of schemes/payments. Although economic and ecological arguments are outlined, our focus in the analysis is on how the result-oriented approach is likely to institute cultural/social change, and how to optimise schemes to ensure cultural embeddedness.
Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Research, part of a Special Feature on Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Cultural Landscapes: Analysis and Management Options Exploring Futures of Ecosystem Services in Cultural Landscapes through Participatory Scenario Development in the Swabian Alb, Germany (2013, background): “…attempting to maintain the status quo of past land-use systems through financial incentives seems to prevent meaningful experimentation and renewal of landscapes rather than achieving their goal of restoring the intricate cultural embedding of people in their landscape (Burton and Schwarz 2013).”
- Payments for ecosystem services: A review and comparison of developing and industrialized countries (2013, background): “Considerable experience and research results exists specifically with regard to innovative contractual design characteristics to enhance economic efficiency and environmental effectiveness, such as performance-based payments (e.g. Matzdorf and Lorenz, 2010; Burton and Schwarz, 2013), auctions (e.”
- Farmer participation in agri-environmental schemes : regionalisation and the role of bridging social capital (2017, positive): “They concluded by pointing to a need for more conceptual and empirical attention for influencing social norms and expectations, which escape scientific attention when focussing principally on farmers’ individual economic interests (see also Burton and Schwarz, 2013; Home et al., 2014).”