Towards an efficient spatial allocation of biodiversity-enhancing farming practises

The paper analyses the efficient spatial allocation of farming practices which have a positive impact on biodiversity. For this purpose a spatial allocation model for two different regions is developed which allows guidelines to be derived on how to achieve the highest possible ecological benefit within a given budget provided to support farming practices for conservational purposes. The difference from other economic models dealing with the efficient spatial allocation of environmental goods is that the benefit function of our model is based on ecological theory. In contrast to other conservation biological models, our model includes more realistic economic assumptions. Therefore our results differ from those obtained in monodisciplinary studies. To assess the implementation possibilities of our model's policy recommendations we investigate existing programmes which have been developed under EU Regulation 2078/92 in the German Federal States. The analysis shows that spatial differentiation already exists and that existing types can be used to implement the policies recommended by our results. (orig.)SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: RR 9274(1999,1) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman