Meeting the challenges of bio-economic modelling in practice: acatchment study from Eastern Scotland

摘要

Designing effective and sustainable agricultural and water resource management policies within the context of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is challenging. This paper describes a methodological framework that is being used to identify interactions between the CAP and the WFD in relation to their economic and environmental effects, and to assess the cost-effectiveness of measures to control water pollution in a catchment in Scotland. The approach combines a biophysical simulation model (NDICEA) with a mathematical programming model (FSSIM-MP) to explore the economic, agronomic and environmental processes taking place within the agricultural systems.