Governing of Agro-ecosystem Services

This book presents a new framework for understanding, analyzing and improving agro-ecosystems services and their governance. It incorporates interdisciplinary approach taking into account the role of specific institutional environment (formal and informal rules and rights); behavioral characteristics of agents (preferences, bounded rationality, opportunism, risk aversion, trust); transactions costs and their critical factors (uncertainty, frequency, asset specificity, appropriability); comparative efficiency of market, private, public and hybrid modes of governance; efficiency of feasible modes for public intervention (assistance, regulation, taxation, funding, provision, partnership); needs for multilateral, multilevel and multinational governance; technological and ecological factors. In depth analysis is made on the state and prospects of environmental governance in Bulgaria during post- communist transition and EU integration. Book is helpful for scholars, businessmen, farmers, civil servants, policy-makers, interest groups, non- governmental and international organizations, and individuals who want to understand and contribute to agro-ecosystem services.

Autorentext

Senior Researcher at Institute of Agricultural Economics, Sofia, Bulgaria. PhD, MSc, University of Economic, Sofia. He worked at Universities of Missouri, London, Kyoto, Kyushu, Toronto, Catholic University of Louvain, Central European University, INRA. Incorporates interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics into agrarian and rural sector.