20.500.12556/RUL-190577 Agri-environmental policy design and farmers' decision-making regarding high nature value landscape feature conservation and restoration doctoral dissertation Načrtovanje ukrepov kmetijsko-okoljske politike in odločanje kmetov glede ohranjanja in obnove krajinskih značilnosti visoke naravne vrednosti doktorska disertacija This doctoral dissertation examines the challenges of conserving and restoring landscape features in intensive agricultural areas of Slovenia and explores opportunities for their more effective integration into agricultural policy. It focuses on fallow land, extensive meadows, and small woody features as three landscape features that make important contributions to biodiversity conservation and the provision of ecosystem services. The results of qualitative thematic analysis of interviews and quantitative analysis using Boosted Regression Trees (BRT) show that agricultural intensification is the primary driver of their decline, while social norms, institutional frameworks, and economic factors also play important roles. The analysis of farmers’ preferences with a discrete choice experiment revealed substantial heterogeneity, indicating that universal policy measures are not cost-effective. Policy simulations suggest that the target of 10% landscape features at a landscape level could be achieved more cost-effectively by targeting incentives towards farmers with a higher willingness to participate and by increasing the flexibility of schemes to better match farmers’ preferences, although this may create trade-offs with ecological effectiveness. Randomized controlled trials showed that simple behavioural interventions, or nudges, embedded in information campaigns did not significantly increase farmers’ participation in environmental schemes. The dissertation therefore concludes that effective biodiversity conservation requires more targeted, locally adapted, and integrated approaches that account for the diversity of farms and farmers. Doktorska disertacija obravnava izzive ohranjanja in obnove krajinskih značilnosti v intenzivnih kmetijskih območjih Slovenije ter možnosti njihove učinkovitejše vključitve v kmetijsko politiko. Osredotoča se na praho, ekstenzivne travnike in majhne lesne elemente kot tri tipe krajinske značilnosti, ki pomembno prispevajo k ohranjanju biotske pestrosti in zagotavljanju ekosistemskih storitev. Rezultati kvalitativne tematske analize intervjujev in kvantitativne analize z metodo BRT (angl. Boosted regression trees) kažejo, da je glavni razlog za njihovo izgubljanje intenzifikacija kmetijstva, pomembno vlogo pa imajo tudi družbene norme, institucionalni okvirji in ekonomski dejavniki. Analiza preferenc kmetov s poskusom diskretne izbire je pokazala visoko heterogenost, zaradi katere univerzalni ukrepi niso stroškovno učinkoviti. Simulacije politik kažejo, da bi bilo mogoče cilj 10-odstotnega deleža krajinskih značilnosti doseči bolj stroškovno učinkovito z usmerjanjem spodbud na kmete z večjo pripravljenostjo za sodelovanje ter z večjo prilagodljivostjo shem preferencam kmetov, kar pa je lahko v konfliktu z ekološko učinkovitostjo. Naključni nadzorovani poskusi so pokazali, da preprosti vedenjski ukrepi oziroma dregljaji v informacijskih kampanjah niso bistveno povečali vključevanja kmetov v okoljske sheme. Disertacija zato zaključuje, da so za učinkovito varstvo biotske pestrosti potrebni bolj ciljno usmerjeni, lokalno prilagojeni in celostni pristopi, ki upoštevajo raznolikost kmetij in kmetov. agriculture agricultural policy landscape features nature conservation Slovenia kmetijstvo kmetijska politika krajinske značilnosti varstvo narave Slovenija doktorske disertacije true false false Ž. Alif Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Doktorsko delo/naloga 2026-10-30 07:16:03 2026-10-30 07:16:22 2026-10-31 04:34:00 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 Ljubljana 2026 Ljubljana 1 spletni vir (1 datoteka PDF (X, 161, [15] str.)) 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 631:502(043.3)=111 302916 303199747 65967.pdf 65967.pdf 1 997BA6DAAB8FF781AF0ED4DAFDDC26C8 b5697d4f33783cae71e62659f4956ee0992a35b4d4cd744c3ee785c9f1ad101d 698f63f1-d429-11f1-aea2-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=252088 Biotehniška fakulteta 0 0 0