Trade-off between economic performance and ecosystem service provision - Overview of modelling approaches

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„Trade-off between economic performance and ecosystem service provision - Overview of modelling approaches“

This contribution intends to give an overview of various approaches to model, identify and estimate possible trade-offs between economic performance and the provision of ecosystem services at field, farm or sectoral level. Different current modelling approaches (as e.g. microeconometric, linear programming based deterministic, biophysical, spatially explicit or land activity based) are reviewed and compared with respect to aim, structure, components, data needs, conclusions etc. Exemplary applications are provided as well as a concrete empirical application based on the production economic motivated multi-output distance function related modelling approach using microeconometric techniques at farm level.

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