Abstract
Measures against the abandonment of common property summer pastures: experimental evidence from joint appropriation–provision games
Highlights
High nature value farming systems (HNVFS) are low-intensity grazing or crop production systems that are generally of marginal economic and high ecological value
The baseline treatment resulted exactly in the provision levels needed to maintain the resource, even though appropriation levels were below optimum. (Recall that the provision suggestion was conditional on appropriation.) in many other treatments, the productivity of the stock increased through the provision contributions made in stage 2, as provision contributions exceeded the 1.6-token per player threshold (i.e., 32 tokens per group)
We investigated how appropriation relates to provision behavior when these two decisions are institutionally interlinked, and what institutional adaptations might lead to more sustainable resource use
Summary
High nature value farming systems (HNVFS) are low-intensity grazing or crop production systems that are generally of marginal economic and high ecological value. They are the result of sustained integrated farming practices aligned with local soils, topography, and other environmental conditions and have created patchy and diverse agricultural landscapes that are rich in biodiversity and other ecosystem services. Many HNVFS are extensively used natural and seminatural grasslands in mountainous areas that are frequently managed as common property (Keenleyside et al 2014, O'Rourke et al 2016) Given their relatively low agronomic value and the state of today's farming technologies, these kinds of marginal and step-grazing lands are among the agricultural landscapes most prone to abandonment in Europe (Verburg et al 2010, Plieninger and Bieling 2013). There is mixed evidence concerning the ecological consequences of farm abandonment in Europe in general (Verburg and Overmars 2009), in the case of Alpine summer pastures, there is consensus among scientists that land abandonment diminishes the ecological and cultural value assigned to Alpine agricultural landscapes (MacDonald et al 2000)
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