filière.paysage - New approaches to landscape economics
Abstract
Structural transformation processes in Austrian rural areas jeopardize jobs and income in agricul-ture, forestry, mining, and in other traditional sectors. The transition to the post-industrial era and the accompanying consumer demand for recreation, sports, nature experience, local quality prod-ucts, however, also offer great opportunities for rural labour markets. Indeed, a new sector is de-veloping around the notion of landscapes. In return for payment, new landscapes are designed, existing landscapes are stewarded or upgraded in terms of their aesthetical, ecological and recrea-tional functions, and landscapes are valorised and marketed. Landscapes are simultaneously re-source and product, both induces brisk economic activities. These developments prompt the analysis of the supply chain landscape that connects diverse public and private supplier and their contractors on the demand side. The analysis and compares different landscape-related supply chains in Austria and, in regional case studies, estimates their employment and income effects. The Austrian project is embedded in a comparative trans-national research project with several French partner organisations. The comparison is based on the assumption, that both countries apply diverging instruments, institutional and context-specific strategies in order to structure the market of landscape service and thereby to secure and create income and jobs in rural areas. The comparative analysis is financed by the French Ministry of Sustainable Development. By comparing various supply chains in different insitutional socio-economic contexts, the relative importance of different actors can be revealed. Another question is, if and to what extent institutional differences and transaction costs (i.e., the costs for information gather-ing, trust building, negotiations, control, communication, etc.) do influence the selection of con-tractor and the wording of contracts.
keywords jobs in rural areas landscape economics Value chain / filière approach
Publikationen
Les nouveaux enjeux économiques des actions paysagères, éléments pour une nouvelle orientation de l’économie du paysage. Programme de recherche: Paysage et Developpement Durable. Rapport final. [“New issues in public action on landscape preservation to define landscape economics”, final report within the research program “Landscape and Sustainable Development”]
Autoren: Rambonilaza, M; Amblard, L; Aznar, O; Baudry, M; Depres, C; Dissart, J-C; Lyser, S; Oueslati, W; Penker, M; Salanie, J; Vollet, D; Wytrzens, H K Jahr: 2010
Forschungsbericht (extern. Auftraggeber)
Project staff
Marianne Penker
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Marianne Penker
marianne.penker@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73115
Project Leader
01.03.2006 - 21.09.2010
Hans Karl Wytrzens
Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Hans Karl Wytrzens
hans_karl.wytrzens@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73116
Project Staff
01.03.2006 - 21.09.2010
BOKU partners
External partners
CEMAGREF Bordeaux
Rambonilaza Tina
partner