TY  - GEN
AB  - 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.
AU  - Falco, Francesca L.
AU  - Feitelson, Eran
AU  - Dayan, Tamar
DA  - 2021
DO  - 10.3390/land10080846
DO  - doi
ID  - 299535
KW  - Environment and the Anthropocene
L1  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/299535/files/CIES_OA_land-10-00846-v2.pdf
L2  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/299535/files/CIES_OA_land-10-00846-v2.pdf
L4  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/299535/files/CIES_OA_land-10-00846-v2.pdf
LK  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/299535/files/CIES_OA_land-10-00846-v2.pdf
N2  - 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.
PY  - 2021
T1  - Spatial scale mismatches in the EU agri-biodiversity conservation policythe case for a shift to landscape-scale design
TI  - Spatial scale mismatches in the EU agri-biodiversity conservation policythe case for a shift to landscape-scale design
UR  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/299535/files/CIES_OA_land-10-00846-v2.pdf
Y1  - 2021
ER  -