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Claudia Sattler currently works at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research. Claudia does research in Ecosystem Services Governance and Environmental Economics.
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In this study, we used institutional analysis to investigate the design of innovative contracts for agri-environmental and climate schemes. The aim of such contracts is to better incentivize farmers for the provision of environmental public goods in comparison to current 'mainstream' contracts. For the analysis, we differentiated four contract type...
Agri-environmental and climate schemes are an important policy instrument in the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union to maintain biodiversity and safeguard ecosystem services provision for human wellbeing. In the presented dataset, we analyzed 19 innovative contracts for agri-environmental and climate schemes from six European countrie...
This Scientific Impact Paper summarizes the changes in policy and practice of crane conservation that have occurred since our 2019 research in the Cheorwon Basin located in the Civilian Control Zone (CCZ) of the Republic of Korea (ROK). Changes in National Policy as well as increased engagement of conservation NGOs have led to more engagement of fa...
Inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration in environmental studies faces the challenge of communicating across disciplines to reach a common understanding of scientific problems and solutions in a changing world. One way to address current pressing environmental challenges is to employ a boundary work approach that uses activities across borders o...
Integrating peatland restoration measures with climate policy is critical for meeting climate targets, but the current policies often fall short of utilizing the large potential that exists. Despite growing private sector interest, few regional voluntary carbon markets for peatlands have emerged worldwide. In this study, we explore three pioneering...
Collective approaches for agri-environmental measures are known for aiming at spatial coordination of measures to enhance ecological effectiveness. In the Netherlands, governance networks for agri-environmental measures are centered around agricultural collectives that function as intermediaries between individual farmers and governmental as well a...
In this study we explore the concept of boundary organizations in the context of collaborative network initiatives which aim to achieve collective action to improve ecosystem services governance at landscape scale. We are specifically interested to analyze how the boundary, which exists between actors with mainly economic interests,
related to prod...
Innovative contracts are needed that promote the provision of biodiversity and diverse ecosystem services from land under agricultural production, given that mainstream agri-environment-climate measures (AECM) funded by the public purse have shown limited effectiveness. Recently, various actors from the public, private and third sectors have experi...
This study focusses on the analysis of governance innovations to promote the provision of forest ecosystem services framed as social innovations. Social innovations can refer to any solution that addresses a social or environmental issue and that creates social relationships in the process leading to new types of collaborations among actors. Up unt...
The provision of ecosystem services (ES) in agricultural landscapes depends, inter alia, on agricultural production, and can therefore be influenced by governance. To capture the impacts of governance on ES via agriculture, we proposed and tested an analytical framework – based on agricultural location theory – to describe possible agricultural imp...
Solving grand environmental societal challenges calls for transdisciplinary and participatory methods in social ecological research. These methods enable co-designing the research, co-producing the results, and co-creating the impacts together with concerned stakeholders. COVID-19 has had serious impacts on the choice of research methods, but refle...
Conventional pastureland management has brought Southern Brazilian dairy farms to a financial and environmental crisis. In this context, the management-intensive grazing system (MIG) emerges as a viable alternative to conventional pastureland management. This study aims to analyze the Social-Ecological System (SES) transformation process of the dai...
Collective agri-environmental schemes are designed to improve the spatial coordination and targeting of agri-environmental measures. However, policymakers must craft these programs carefully to motivate farmers to participate. This of course requires knowing what factors actually influence farmers, since they relate to ecosystems in different ways....
Economic instruments for the management of natural resources and ecosystem services governance have gained importance over the past few years. The development and implementation of large-scale public Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs as agri-environmental measures (AEMs) depends on complex governance structures and involves diverse act...
Provisioning ecosystem services play a vital role in sustaining human well-being. Agro-ecosystems contribute a significant share of these services, besides food and fodder and also fuel and fibre as well as regulating and cultural ecosystem services. Until now, the indication of provisioning ecosystem services of agro-ecosystems has been based almo...
Abstract Biodiversity conservation in protected areas requires strict legal limitations to land use. In the Civilian Control Zone (CCZ) of the Republic of Korea (ROK), military control has created an accidental sanctuary for the world's rarest crane species: the white‐naped crane (Antigone vipio) and the red‐crowned crane (Grus japonensis). Yet var...
The fulfilment of the benefits resulting from services provided by nature requires an integrated framework that combines appropriate ecosystem service governance with spatially explicit models of service provision.
Here, we propose using a social‐ecological network approach to develop a ‘landscape governance framework’ that identifies how different...
In response to the risks ecosystems and ecosystem services (ES) are exposed to, and to guarantee resilience of socio-ecological systems in the long run, human beings have to react; they have to employ certain strategies to direct developments. There are multiple questions to ask: how should they act in a transformative way? How do individuals and o...
This paper introduces the special issue on ‘Methods for ecosystem services governance analysis’. The term ‘ecosystem service governance’ has only recently emerged in the peer-reviewed literature in ecosystem services research. This introductory paper aims to analyze and review the body of literature that has been published under the label ‘ecosyste...
For researchers, conducting face-to-face interviews is always a challenge as it often turns into a one-way directed information
retrieval. Therefore, interviewees not always are very motivated, enthusiastic and cooperative in responding to the questions.
In the end, this has implications for the quality of the interview data. To improve the intervi...
Comunidades que vivem em áreas de proteção integral vivenciam situações conflituosas. Neste artigo analisamos o estudo de caso da Comunidade de Marujá, do Parque Estadual da Ilha do Cardoso (PEIC) (Cananeia, São Paulo, Brasil) e demonstramos soluções práticas que podem ser aplicadas para outras áreas protegidas caracterizadas pelos mesmos conflitos...
We analyze four case studies from Latin America using the concept of multilevel governance to assess at what vertical and horizontal levels and in what roles various state, market, and civil society actors interact for successful community-based environmental management (CBEM). In particular, we address the problem of how a conflict over natural re...
This viewpoint is based on the premise that it may be reasonable to further integrate the ecosystem services (ES) concept into agri-environmental policies, particularly into agri-environmental measures (AEMs). Building on this, we show that collaboration between the government and civil society actors (CSAs) may offer many opportunities to integrat...
Large governmental payments for ecosystem services programs (PES) have frequently been criticized for their limited environmental effectiveness. The use of local intermediaries has been considered as one possibility for improving the environmental effectiveness of such programs. German Landcare Associations (LCAs) have been identified as one interm...
Technological innovations in agricultural land use management can provide economic benefits and an important contribution to the provision of ecosystem services. However, the active implementation of management approaches regarding the provision of ecosystem services is not in the focus of economic actors because of the public good characteristic o...
In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to financial environmental policy instruments that have played important roles in solving agri-environmental problems throughout the world, particularly in the European Union and the United States. The ample and increasing literature on Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) and agri-environmental...
In Brief Economic growth is a paradigm foreign to most traditional communities, as their culture is closely connected to a sustainable way of living that keeps natural resources intact over long periods of time, and is based on group rather than individual welfare. With changing frame conditions such communities often struggle to find ways to maint...
The use of payments for ecosystem services (PES) to steer land use practices has increased considerably at an international level over past years. An efficient and effective PES implementation strategy often relies on active support from intermediaries. This paper provides an analytical framework for assessing the potential of intermediaries to imp...
A German version of the report is available at http://www.oekom.de/nc/buecher/gesamtprogramm/buch/was-kostet-die-welt-payments-for-ecosystem-services-in-der-praxis.html
Communities situated in protected areas generate conflicts among park administrators, residents and scientists. Should they stay or should they go? This article presents a positive example of a community existing in a state park. The study describes the community’s governance process as well as how the park administration and the community solve th...
Mit einer Vielzahl von Instrumenten wird versucht, den zunehmenden Umweltproblemen zu begegnen. Dazu gehören auch „Payments for Ecosystem Services“, kurz PES. Unter diesem Schlagwort werden Programme und Projekte diskutiert, bei denen insbesondere Land- und Forstwirte für die Bereitstellung sogenannter Ökosystemleistungen honoriert werden. Das Inte...
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are defined in different ways and a variety of approaches is currently summarized under the PES label. This paper introduces a system for the multi-classification of PES schemes. The classification is based on different PES characteristics and their specifications. Analyzed characteristics include, amongst othe...
In this paper, introducing the special issue on “Payments for Ecosystem Services and Their Institutional Dimensions: Analyzing the Diversity of Existing PES Approaches in Developing and Industrialized Countries”, we highlight the following PES aspects. First we set out with a discussion on different definitions of PES, both in a narrow and a wider...
This paper presents a whole farm bio-economic modelling approach for the assessment and optimisation of amphibian conservation conditions applied at the example of a large scale organic farm in North-Eastern Germany. The assessment focuses mainly on the habitat quality as affected by conservation measures such as through specific adapted crop produ...
Integrated simulation models can be useful tools in farming system research. This chapter reviews three commonly used approaches, i.e. linear programming, system dynamics and agent-based models. Applications of each approach are presented and strengths and drawbacks discussed. We argue that, despite some challenges, mainly related to the integratio...
The study presented here describes a modeling approach for the ex-ante assessment of farming practices with respect to their risk for several single-species biodiversity indicators. The approach is based on fuzzy-logic techniques and, thus, is tolerant to the inclusion of sources of uncertain knowledge, such as expert judgment into the assessment....
The direct payment system of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) provides income transfers to European farmers. Recently, several countries including England and Sweden have advocated the elimination of direct payments after 2013. The extent to which an elimination of direct payments would affect the land use dynamics in Europe including impacts o...
The direct payment system of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) provides income transfers to European farmers. Recently, several countries including England and Sweden have advocated the elimination of direct payments after 2013. The extent to which an elimination of direct payments would affect the land use dynamics in Europe including impacts o...
We used a farm-level modeling approach to estimate on-farm compliance costs and environmental effects of a grassland extensification scheme in the district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin, Germany. The behavior of the regional farm population (n = 585) consisting of different farm types with different production orientations and grassland types was modeled...
As agricultural policies affect land use, they have effects on the amount of soil erosion in agricultural regions through changes of the economic conditions of agricultural production. Prices of inputs and outputs, regulations and incentives can change, forcing or encouraging farmers to adopt new crop rotations. This paper shows how a bio-economic...
Intensive forms of agriculture have been proven to cause severe environmental effects, such as soil erosion by water and wind, or the pollution of ground and surface water with nutrients and pesticides contributing to the deterioration of natural habitats and the loss in biodiversity. In order to avoid or mitigate these detrimental environmental ef...
This study presents an integrated assessment approach for the sustainable development of agricultural landscapes. The approach evaluates single agricultural production practices by means of environmental, economic and social indicators. To implement the approach, a mixed method was employed that combines modelling techniques and survey methods. The...
The recent and upcoming reforms of the Common Agricultural Policies (CAPs) aim at strengthening the multifunctional role of agriculture, acknowledging the differences in economic, environmental and social potentials within European regions. This paper presents results from an integrated assessment of existing and future policies within the framewor...
The MEA-Scope project developed, and applied a modelling approach that allows for the ex ante assessment of sustainability impacts of new policies, technologies and market changes. Thereby, the agricultural production at farm level and its effect on social, economic and environmental assets under changing circumstances is examined. The MEA-Scope mo...
This contribution links the activity of farming in rural areas in response to policy changes to the achievement of economic, social, and environmental policy objectives. The focus here is on a model-based evaluation of policy impacts on the supply of multifunctional activities using an indicator framework. We apply the MEA-Scope modelling approach.
This chapter summarises economic and environmental impacts of five CAP scenarios in seven European case study regions located in Germany, Denmark, Italy, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and France. The spatially explicit MEA-Scope modelling approach based on three farm-level models – AgriPoliS (agent-based), MODAM (bio-economic), FASSET (bio-physical) –...
Impact assessment is a procedure that goes along with the preparation of policies and is a key instrument to support political decision-making. An environmental impact assessment (EIA) focuses on the likely environmental effects of a policy option. Of specific interest in this context are effects with respect to environmentally sensitive areas such...
Scenarios induced land use changes and their effects on abiotic and biotic indicators are analysed for a heterogeneous territory in Northern Tuscany. Results show that under a specific policy scenario the responses are highly variable within a given region depending of the landscape component considered and that scenarios induced changes result in...
Die Unterschiede zwischen Regionen in Europa mussen bei der Umsetzung von Politikansatzen berucksichtigt werden. Das gilt insbesondere fur die verschiedenen Faktoren, die die Landwirtschaft beeinflussen. Durch eine integrierte Modellierung kann die Anpassung politischer Entscheidungen unterstutzt werden.
Die Unterschiede zwischen Regionen in Europa müssen bei der Umsetzung von Politikansätzen berücksichtigt werden. Das gilt insbesondere für die verschiedenen Faktoren, die die Landwirtschaft beeinflussen. Durch eine integrierte Modellierung kann die Anpassung politischer Entscheidungen unterstützt werden.
The paper explores the ecological effects of a policy change from coupled direct payments to decoupled single farm payments in a case study region in Germany. Since decoupling is expected to affect agricultural production and trade, both statically with respect to the incentive prices of agricultural inputs or outputs, and dynamically with respect...
In order to lower the risks associated to intensive pesticide use, efforts have been made at the European and the national level of several member countries of the European Union. In Germany, a national reduction programme for pesticides had been set up. The programme makes use of the methods elaborated in the context of the NEPTUN-project. The NEP...
Management practises are actually designed CO-oriented. Following the societal demand for implementing multifunctional agriculture it is necessary to examine in how far the existing management practices are as well feasible to produce NCOs or in how far they are multifunctionally sound (jointly CO/NCO oriented). Multifunctional joint production has...
Multi-functionality of agriculture has become a crucial issue in WTO negotiations on agriculture trade. The theoretical classification of agricultural products into Commodity (CO) and Non-Commodity Outputs (NCO) by the OECD provided a framework for further analysis. The operationalisation of the concept of multi-functionality of agriculture require...
This paper presents an attempt to model the response of selected farms to decoupled direct payments and the associated impact on the provision of a defined set of non-commodity outputs (NCO’s) using a combined modelling approach consisting of the AgriPoliS and MODAM models. AgriPoliS focuses on the socio-economic dimension of multifunctionality at...
The concept of sustainability and international trade relations require changes in the current agri- environmental policy of the European Community. Therefore, in the future, the EU funded agricultural subsidies will increasingly be linked to the environmental performance of agricultural practices. To develop an effective agro-environmental policy,...
This paper discusses some relations between agricultural land use and landscape functions. The focus is on functions which are scale dependent, for example the habitat function of arable fields, which is related to biodiversity. Statements about the occurrence of species depend on the spatial scale in focus. Typical scales of observation in agricul...
The EU sees agri-environmental measures as a policy instrument to cope with future challenges caused by e.g. WTO negotiations or new scarcities in the field of resources and environment. As it is highly complicated to evaluate the effects of management-oriented measures, for example their environmental effects are seldom an observable state of natu...
