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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | qoad001 |
| Journal | Q Open |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 7 Feb 2023 |
Abstract
Agri-environmental climate measures (AECM) are considered a promising tool to achieve environmental policy goals. Not only farmers but also policy administrators and intermediaries are important actors whose attitudes and actions drive the success of these measures. To follow the idea of better stakeholder participation in the design of policy instruments, we analyse stakeholder viewpoints on the contract design of the AECM. We apply the Q methodology to 25 individuals from Brandenburg, Germany, who are from the farmer, policy administrator, and intermediary domains. We identify three distinct attitudinal profiles: the 'planners', the 'cooperators', and the 'individualists', which do not correspond to the three individual stakeholder groups. The results provide evidence that general differences in the viewpoints of policy designers and implementers on the one hand and farmers on the other hand are not a source of potential institutional mismatch. We further use the attitudinal profiles to develop three types of policy programmes with slightly different underlying rationalities. Policymakers could use such an approach to better develop target group-specific (sub)programmes in parallel. Our research strengthens the argument that multiple stakeholders should be involved in co-designing conservation measures. Moreover, behavioural factors should be considered in policy making processes.
Keywords
- Agri-environmental schemes, Environmental governance, Institutional economics, Policy design, Social perspectives, Stakeholder engagement
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)
- Food Science
- Social Sciences(all)
- Development
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
- Economics and Econometrics
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
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In: Q Open, Vol. 3, No. 1, qoad001, 07.02.2023.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The institutional design of agri-environmental contracts - How stakeholder attitudes can inform policy making
AU - Schulze, Christoph
AU - Matzdorf, Bettina
N1 - Funding Information: The authors acknowledge funding through the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), Grant/Award Number: 01LC1315A and funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 818190).
PY - 2023/2/7
Y1 - 2023/2/7
N2 - Agri-environmental climate measures (AECM) are considered a promising tool to achieve environmental policy goals. Not only farmers but also policy administrators and intermediaries are important actors whose attitudes and actions drive the success of these measures. To follow the idea of better stakeholder participation in the design of policy instruments, we analyse stakeholder viewpoints on the contract design of the AECM. We apply the Q methodology to 25 individuals from Brandenburg, Germany, who are from the farmer, policy administrator, and intermediary domains. We identify three distinct attitudinal profiles: the 'planners', the 'cooperators', and the 'individualists', which do not correspond to the three individual stakeholder groups. The results provide evidence that general differences in the viewpoints of policy designers and implementers on the one hand and farmers on the other hand are not a source of potential institutional mismatch. We further use the attitudinal profiles to develop three types of policy programmes with slightly different underlying rationalities. Policymakers could use such an approach to better develop target group-specific (sub)programmes in parallel. Our research strengthens the argument that multiple stakeholders should be involved in co-designing conservation measures. Moreover, behavioural factors should be considered in policy making processes.
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KW - Agri-environmental schemes
KW - Environmental governance
KW - Institutional economics
KW - Policy design
KW - Social perspectives
KW - Stakeholder engagement
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U2 - 10.1093/qopen/qoad001
DO - 10.1093/qopen/qoad001
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