TY - JOUR
T1 - Do city dwellers care about peri-urban land use? The case of environment-friendly agriculture around Milan
AU - Arata, Linda
AU - Guastella, Giovanni
AU - Pareglio, Stefano
AU - Scarpa, Riccardo
AU - Sckokai, Paolo
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Undeveloped land adjacent to urban areas has a strong potential to generate high amenity values to urban dwellers via the adoption of environment-friendly agricultural practices. Yet, there is a lack of specific policy measures tailored to unlock such potential and a scant knowledge of the preferences of the main beneficiaries. Analysis of data from a Choice Experiment in the municipality of Milan based on current policy deliverables shows that a large share of the urban population is willing to pay for specific ecological benefits linked to agricultural practices. Organic farming and land strips sown with wildflowers are the two practices whose ecological benefits are found most desirable. Willingness to pay for a policy intervention is shown to significantly correlate with income class, with low income recipients being more interested in organic farming while those with middle or high income deriving higher benefits from planting fast-growing trees.
AB - Undeveloped land adjacent to urban areas has a strong potential to generate high amenity values to urban dwellers via the adoption of environment-friendly agricultural practices. Yet, there is a lack of specific policy measures tailored to unlock such potential and a scant knowledge of the preferences of the main beneficiaries. Analysis of data from a Choice Experiment in the municipality of Milan based on current policy deliverables shows that a large share of the urban population is willing to pay for specific ecological benefits linked to agricultural practices. Organic farming and land strips sown with wildflowers are the two practices whose ecological benefits are found most desirable. Willingness to pay for a policy intervention is shown to significantly correlate with income class, with low income recipients being more interested in organic farming while those with middle or high income deriving higher benefits from planting fast-growing trees.
KW - Peri-urban agriculture
KW - agri-environmental policy
KW - choice experiment
KW - random parameter logit model
KW - random utility in WTP space
KW - Peri-urban agriculture
KW - agri-environmental policy
KW - choice experiment
KW - random parameter logit model
KW - random utility in WTP space
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/161747
U2 - 10.1080/09640568.2020.1799765
DO - 10.1080/09640568.2020.1799765
M3 - Article
SN - 0964-0568
VL - 64
SP - 1044
EP - 1066
JO - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
JF - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
ER -