Modelling of Ecosystem Services Provided by Agriculture in Hungary

The aim of this project is to evaluate non-marketed ecosystem services that arise in Hungarian agriculture when producing market outputs by implementing and calibrating the Biome-BGCMuSo 4.0 ecosystem model adapted to the Hungarian setting (AgroMo), and by developing econometric models for evaluating the impact of rural development support schemes in facilitating the provision of environmental public goods and ecosystem services. Following an extensive review of theoretical and methodological literature in 2019, this multiannual project is modelling specific agricultural ecosystem services utilizing the various databases at Research Institute of Agricultural Economics (AKI’s) disposal and evaluating rural development measures relevant to the study. The visiting student will participate in filtering the database of agri-environmental measures and in preparing and running econometric models and scenarios. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Cairns

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Partner:

Szent István University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

McGill University

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