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.