farming practices that enhance ecosystem services. Therefore developing a cost-efficient and effective conservation …-by-results approach and the use of conservation procurement auctions in order to improve the cost-effectiveness of conservation schemes …

. Therefore developing cost-effective conservation payment schemes is the main challenge facing present European agri … use of discriminatory-price conservation procurement auctions in order to improve the cost-effectiveness of conservation …-effectiveness gains by the use of conservation procurement auctions point out that it was possible to transfer the payment scheme …

specific ecological and economical factors that reflect benefits and costs of biodiversity conservation. Main findings are that … the general structure of an agri-environment index is recommended to be a benefits-to-cost ratio, whereby the conservation … site and point out its significance for biodiversity conservation (Conservation Significance Factor), ii) a criterion that …

Fund for Rural Development has introduced promising changes in rewarding farmers by the implementation of conservation …' private transaction costs. -- Agri-environmental policy ; biodiversity conservation auctions ; transaction costs ; ecological …