Abstract The United States Department of Agriculture's Conservation Reserve Program
(CRP) has evolved from near open enrollment, to competitive enrollment, and now to a …

This paper considers how agri-environment schemes under the Common Agricultural Policy
could be adapted to derive a higher return of ecosystem services, by spatially targeting the …

European agri-environmental policy has diverse and competing objectives. The Common
Agricultural Policy has been the main policy framework guiding the European Union (EU) …

Globally, much biodiversity is found on private land. Acting to conserve such biodiversity
thus requires the design of policies which influence the decision-making of farmers and …

Ecology Letters (2012) 15: 406–414 Abstract Incentive payments to private landowners
provide a common strategy to conserve biodiversity and enhance the supply of goods and …

Many ecosystem services are public goods whose provision depends on the spatial pattern
of land use. The pattern of land use is often determined by the decisions of multiple private …

This article assesses the potential contribution of economic experiments to evidence-based
policy making in the field of agriculture, with a special focus on the European Union (EU)'s …

This paper discusses the potential application of Payment for Ecosystem Services-like
schemes to tackle market failures associated with the public good characteristics of …

Habitat loss is a primary cause of loss of biodiversity but conserving habitat for species
presents challenges. Land parcels differ in their ability to produce returns for landowners …

This paper provides a succinct review of the main developments in the literature on incentive-
based policy mechanisms in the contexts of pollution control and biodiversity conservation …