.: Land Use, Livestock, Quantity Governance, and Economic Instruments—Sustainability Be-yond Big Livestock Herds and Fossil Fuels

Autor: Weishaupt, A.; Ekardt, F.; Garske, B.; Stubenrauch, J.; Wieding, J.
In:

Sustainability

Bandangabe: 12:2053
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12052053
Seite: 1 - 27
Jahr: 2020

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Institut: Professur Bodenkunde

Abstract:
sustainabilityArticle
Land Use, Livestock, Quantity Governance, and
Economic Instruments—Sustainability Beyond Big
Livestock Herds and Fossil Fuels
Antonia Weishaupt 1, Felix Ekardt 1,2,3, Beatrice Garske 1,3 , Jessica Stubenrauch 1,3,* and
Jutta Wieding 1
1 Research Unit Sustainability and Climate Policy, 04229 Leipzig, Germany;
antonia.weishaupt@posteo.de (A.W.); felix.ekardt@uni-rostock.de (F.E.);
beatrice.garske@uni-rostock.de (B.G.); jutta.wieding@posteo.de (J.W.)
2 Faculty of Law, Rostock University, 18051 Rostock, Germany
3 Interdisciplinary Faculty and Science Campus Phosphorus Research, Rostock University, 18051 Rostock,
Germany
* Correspondence: jessica.stubenrauch@uni-rostock.de; Tel.: +49-341-492-77866
Received: 2 January 2020; Accepted: 28 February 2020; Published: 6 March 2020





Abstract: The production of animal food products is (besides fossil fuels) one of the most
important noxae with regard to many of the environmental problems, such as climate change,
biodiversity loss or globally disrupted nutrient cycles. This paper provides a qualitative governance
analysis of which regulatory options there are to align livestock farming with the legally binding
environmental objectives, in particular the Paris Agreement and the Convention on Biological
Diversity. Two innovative governance approaches are developed and compared: a cap-and-trade
scheme for animal products and a livestock-to-land ratio. Both instruments are measured against the
above-mentioned environmental objectives, taking into account findings from behavioural sciences
and typical governance problems. Both approaches are generally suitable as quantity governance
in animal husbandry if they are properly designed. In the end, a combination of both approaches
proved to be particularly effective ecologically. All of this simultaneously demonstrates, on the basis
of a rarely considered but ecologically highly relevant sector, how a quantity governance approach
that is based on an easily comprehensible governance unit can function across all sectors and regions.

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