Eco-efficiency is a matter of concern at present that is receiving increasing attention in
political, academic and business circles. Broadly speaking, this concept refers to the ability …

Agri-environmental schemes (AES) play a key role in promoting the production of
environmental public goods by European Union agriculture. Although extensive literature …

Eco-efficiency is currently receiving ever increasing interest as an indicator of sustainability,
as it links environmental and economic performances in productive activities. In agriculture …

The bioenergy economy promises to stimulate the local economic growth and improve the
welfare of people living in rural areas. To accomplish this, there is global consensus on the …

The adoption of soil conservation practices (SCP) in olive groves in Andalusia, such as not
burning olive-desuckering debris, shredding olive-pruning debris for use as inert soil cover …

Environmental sustainability in agriculture can be measured through the construction of
composite indicators. However, this is a challenging task because these indexes are heavily …

The identification and treatment of protest responses in stated preference surveys has long
been subject to debate. We analyse protest responses while investigating ecosystem …

This paper uses directional distance functions to extend the non-parametric metafrontier
approach to efficiency measurement proposed by O'Donnell et al.(Empir Econ 34: 231–255 …

Specialised literature on the uptake of agri-environmental schemes (AES) has paid little
attention to how this can be influenced by the different types of agricultural systems. This …

Un aprovechamiento inteligente del capital territorial es fundamental para propiciar el
desarrollo regional. En el caso de Andalucía, los paisajes del olivar resultan ser un …