Assessing the costs of measuring biodiversity: methodological and empirical issues
| dc.creator | Targetti, Stefano | |
| dc.creator | Viaggi, Davide | |
| dc.creator | Cuming, David | |
| dc.creator | Sarthou, J.P. | |
| dc.creator | Choisis, J.P. | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T13:47:15Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T05:39:38Z | |
| dc.description | Organic and low-input farming practices are considered keystones for the conservation of biodiversity in semi-natural systems. Accordingly, attention to the assessment of the benefits stemming from these activities is increasing in order to provide a solid base for the adoption of agro-environmental incentives and to support their monitoring and evaluation. The evaluation of the positive effects of organic and low-input farming activities on biodiversity is limited mainly by: the difficulty in proposing simple and widely-applicable indicators of biodiversity, and the substantial lack of data concerning the costs of measuring biodiversity - an essential element for a cost-effectiveness analysis. Moreover, the limited scientific literature available is based on ex-post analysis rather than on systematic data collection. The assessment of the costs of measuring biodiversity at farm-scale throughout Europe is one of the specific tasks of the BioBio project (UE-FP7). In this work, we discuss methodological aspects and preliminary results based on data gathered during fieldwork measurements of biodiversity in BioBio. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.109414 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/109414/files/Targetti_Viaggi_Cuming_Sarthou_Choisis.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/109414 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/566684 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/109414 | |
| dc.title | Assessing the costs of measuring biodiversity: methodological and empirical issues | |
| dc.type | Text |