@article{Falco:299535,
      recid = {299535},
      author = {Falco, Francesca L. and Feitelson, Eran and Dayan, Tamar},
      title = {Spatial scale mismatches in the EU agri-biodiversity  conservation policy the case for a shift to landscape-scale  design},
      address = {2021},
      number = {ARTICLE},
      abstract = {Agriculture is a major driver of the ongoing biodiversity  decline, demanding an urgent transition towards a system  that reconciles productivity and profitability with nature  conservation; however, where public policies promoting such  transitions are in place, their design often poorly fits  the relevant biogeophysical systems, decreasing the  policies’ expected effectiveness. Spatial scale mismatches  are a primary example in this regard. The literature  reviewed in this paper, drawing from both ecology and  policy studies, suggests to foster policy implementation at  the landscape scale, where most functional ecological  processes—and the delivery of related ecosystem  services—occur on farmland. Two strategies are identified  for coordinating policy implementation at the landscape  scale: the promotion of farmers’ collective action and the  partition of space on an ecologically sound basis through  spatial planning. As the new European Union Common  Agricultural Policy (CAP) post-2023 is currently being  defined, we assess if and how the draft agri-biodiversity  legislation includes any of the strategies above. We find  no comprehensive uptake of the landscape-scale perspective  at the EU level, thereby suggesting that a powerful tool to  overcome the CAP underperformance on biodiversity is being  overlooked.},
      url = {http://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/299535},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.3390/land10080846},
}