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Shaping the landscape: agricultural policies and local biodiversity schemes

Turpin, Nadine and Dupraz, Pierre and Thenail, Claudine and Joannon, Alexandre and Baudry, Jacques and Herviou, Serge and Verburg, Peter (2009): Shaping the landscape: agricultural policies and local biodiversity schemes. Published in: Land Use Policy , Vol. 26, (April 2009): pp. 273-283.

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Abstract

This paper analyses the potential effect of local agro-environmental policies in promoting multifunctionality in a rural landscape, with a two-scale modelling framework: a regional scale for food demand and a local scale for the forces driving land use. The framework has been designed in four steps. First, the relative influence of the driving factors on the current land use pattern has been analysed. Two scenarios are designed that vary the external demand for the total land use, and alter more or less quickly the specific location factors that drive the landscape pattern. The first scenario considers trends in the external and internal driving forces. The second relies both on totally decoupled farm subsidies and unregulated housing growth. In both scenarios a local agro-environmental policy is introduced and we compare its consequences with the previous scenario’s landscape pattern. The third step consists of a modelling exercise that analyses the likely outcome of each scenario on the development of land use patterns on a local scale. Last, these landscape patterns have been translated into ecological indexes that assess the effect of the policy options on the multifunctionality of the local landscape.

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