The landscape of olive groves as a driver of the rural economy
2017
Rodríguez-Entrena, Macario | Colombo, Sergio | Arriaza, Manuel
This study evaluates how landscape changes made in order to improve the visual quality of olive groves may trigger ûrst and second-order effects (FOEs and SOEs) on the rural economy. The choice experiment method is combined with the probability of visiting to estimate the marginal increase in recreational demand derived from the combination of three landscape elements: green cover, stone walls and woodland islets. The results suggest that the improvement of the aesthetic value of landscape (mainly through green covers and stone walls) creates a real, positive asset (due to its FOEs and SOEs) for the local economies in rural areas. The promotion of the recreational value of these areas to attract more visitors and so bring in more income could be a proûtable policy, which could be implemented by hybridizing the current Agri-environmental scheme with a Payment for Ecosystem Services approach.
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