Imprese agricole e mitigazione dei cambiamenti climatici fra incentivi pubblici e responsabilità privata
Author(s)
Passeri, Nicolò
Date Issued
June 20, 2013
Type
Doctoral Thesis
Abstract
The integration in between economic and environmental goals has been assumed more and
more important role. This complex debate is very emphasized into agriculture, where the answers
are directly influenced by the market and by the connections between environment and natural
resources.
Checking the impact of farming on environment and evaluating it in a more reliable way is
one of the main issues this debate. The aim is to limit the negative behaviours on natural resources,
promoting what increase ecosystems’ quality; the results could provide services into the community
and agriculture.
Thus, the agricultural environmental impact evaluation on climate change has been target on
sector level, following first the Kyoto Protocol, and on product level, following a Life Cycle
Assessment approach with environmental declaration and certification goals.
In this work has been defined in a more reliable way the environmental role of agriculture.
Some methodologies have been provided for public support and private initiatives evaluation.
The CAP analyses and set the relationship between agriculture and environment in two ways:
all farms have to respect mandatory requirements to for accessing to public subsidies (direct
payment), or they could respect voluntary requirements (agri-environmental measures) to reach
other payments. The goal of these two perspective has been oriented on new CAP challenges.
These objectives have to be reach trough an efficient public spending, a reliable evaluation of
farming environmental impacts and analysing how decrease them. This process has, in the CAP, the
farm level as unit, that is the character that determine the impacts on natural resources.
To identify reliable methodologies that provide impact indicators is extremely important.
These indicators have to be set on the single farm, they should address the initiatives coherently
with the politic issues.
Moreover, the civil society issues, that guide also the purchases, make the farms more an
more careful on environmental behaviours and communications.
This work provide a solution to environmental evaluation of farms and built an evaluation
model that measures, starting from some framework data, the economic and the environmental side.
The model evaluate the environmental performances linked to Green House Gasses (GHG)
flux (emission and absorption) and exceeds the methodological limits providing a different
approach based on production and consumption of natural resources (environmental balance).
This approach has been tested on a first case study that provides a check on the
methodological proposal and shows the link in between environmental and economic performances
at farm level. The results confirm the limits on GHG flux evaluation while ratify the opportunities
on environmental balance that takes into account the supply and demand on natural resources at
farm level.
This work provides a deepening on agriculture environmental evaluation and offers a
methodology that, thought a model, verify the farm environmental contribution. Moreover it
measures the economic and environmental performances at the same time, and provides a new
approach useful in a greening perspective, for institutions and farms to address the initiatives.
Additional information
Dottorato di ricerca in Economia e territorio
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