Component 17: Value of increase/loss of agricultural areas

Definition

This component captures the average damage costs resulting from the loss of agricultural areas or the benefits resulting from an increase of agricultural areas (in prices of 2010).

Effect on the NWI:

Description and meaning of the component

A loss of agricultural area constitutes a decline of an important form of natural capital, crucial for a sustainable economy, ecology and area development; vice versa, an increase can be considered positive.

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Development of the component

Value of increase/loss of agricultural areas

(in prices of 2010)

billion Euro

source: Statistisches Bundesamt, graphic account by FEST/FFU