Rural Landscapes And Agricultural Policies In Europe

Author : Annette Piorr,Klaus Müller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783540794707

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Rural Landscapes and Agricultural Policies in Europe by Annette Piorr,Klaus Müller Pdf

These are the final results and reflections of the project MEA-Scope. This project with the full title “Micro-economic instruments for impact assessment of multifunctional agriculture to implement the model of European Agriculture” was a pioneering project. It was among the first which were funded in the new activity Scientific Support to Policies of the th 6 Research Framework Programme. Policy decisions – especially at the European level – are never easy. What policy-makers decide will potentially affect the lives of millions of people for many years. This makes reaching informed decisions crucial, and scientific research can help illuminate their policy choices. MEA-Scope was one of two projects which addressed the research p- orities for European Rural areas which were identified in an EC workshop on Multifunctionality in Agriculture in 2001. Scientific Support to Policies in the Research Framework Programme is facing the challenge to identify in the discussions between policy makers and the research community those topics which can be addressed in a m- term strategic research programme. When the research topic was published Multifunctionality of Agriculture was among the concepts with many - search questions open. It was considered that positivistic approaches into technology aspects of agriculture, forestry and other rural activities based on natural resources and land use are needed, as well as more normative research with regard to trade, food quality and safety, animal welfare, en- ronment, rural development and cultural issues.

Author : Annette Piorr,Klaus Müller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 3540794697

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Rural Landscapes and Agricultural Policies in Europe by Annette Piorr,Klaus Müller Pdf

These are the final results and reflections of the project MEA-Scope. This project with the full title “Micro-economic instruments for impact assessment of multifunctional agriculture to implement the model of European Agriculture” was a pioneering project. It was among the first which were funded in the new activity Scientific Support to Policies of the th 6 Research Framework Programme. Policy decisions – especially at the European level – are never easy. What policy-makers decide will potentially affect the lives of millions of people for many years. This makes reaching informed decisions crucial, and scientific research can help illuminate their policy choices. MEA-Scope was one of two projects which addressed the research p- orities for European Rural areas which were identified in an EC workshop on Multifunctionality in Agriculture in 2001. Scientific Support to Policies in the Research Framework Programme is facing the challenge to identify in the discussions between policy makers and the research community those topics which can be addressed in a m- term strategic research programme. When the research topic was published Multifunctionality of Agriculture was among the concepts with many - search questions open. It was considered that positivistic approaches into technology aspects of agriculture, forestry and other rural activities based on natural resources and land use are needed, as well as more normative research with regard to trade, food quality and safety, animal welfare, en- ronment, rural development and cultural issues.

Author : Teresa Pinto-Correia,Jørgen Primdahl,G. Bas M. Pedroli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 110763699X

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European Landscapes in Transition by Teresa Pinto-Correia,Jørgen Primdahl,G. Bas M. Pedroli Pdf

European rural landscapes as we experience them today are the result of ongoing processes and interactions between nature and society. These are changing fast: the future landscapes will be different from those we know currently. Written for academics, policy-makers and practitioners, this book is the first to explore the complex histories of rural landscapes in Europe as a basis for their sound governance in future. Tensions between the needs of agricultural spaces driven by economic incentives and a variety of non-agricultural functions are explored to demonstrate current challenges and the shortfalls in the policies that address them. Using inspiring case studies that highlight the roles of regional agents and communities, the authors go further than the usual analyses to illustrate the importance of local context. Written by experts currently working to revitalise the rural landscapes of Europe, the text concludes with suggestions for improving landscape policy and planning practice.

Author : Mauro Agnoletti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789400753549

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Italian Historical Rural Landscapes by Mauro Agnoletti Pdf

Sustainable development and rural policies have pursued strategies where farming has been often regarded as a factor deteriorating the ecosystem. But the current economic, social and environmental problems of the Earth probably call for examples of a positive integration between human society and nature. This research work presents more than a hundred case studies where the historical relationships between man and nature have generated, not deterioration, but cultural, environmental, social and economic values. The results show that is not only the economic face of globalization that is negatively affecting the landscape, but also inappropriate environmental policies. The CBD-UNESCO program on biocultural diversity, the FAO Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems and several projects of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, as well as European rural policies acknowledge the importance of cultural values associated to landscape. This research intends to support these efforts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9783643963024

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NEW RURAL GEOGRAPHIES IN EUROPE by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan Greer
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 071906029X

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Agricultural Policy in Europe by Alan Greer Pdf

This book provides a stimulating account of agricultural policy which goes beyond a narrow concern with the mechanisms and operation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and instead constructs a broader canvas, developing an assessment of the relationship between national, international and supranational institutions and actors in the agricultural sector. Among the theses covered by the book are: the different national policy styles across Europe in this sector; the evolution of the CAP; safety and regulation, the environment, and technological developments in food production such as genetic engineering.

Author : Floor Brouwer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1781958033

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Sustaining Agriculture and the Rural Environment by Floor Brouwer Pdf

Apart from food and raw materials, agriculture can also provide ancillary benefits such as landscapes, biodiversity, cultural heritage and thriving rural communities. This book offers a state-of-the-art overview of strategies for sustainable management practices and their implementation through the adoption of suitable instruments. Such practices aim to sustain and support the multiple functions provided by agriculture and natural resources in the rural countryside. The authors explore the value of alternative governance structures and examine the design of policy models and institutional mechanisms for a range of different countries and agricultural methods. The empirical results allow them to identify successful examples as well as recognize practices which have failed. They can then transfer positive policies to geographical areas or production systems where effective and efficient strategies for the sustainable management of natural resources are urgently needed. In doing so, the authors hope to improve the design, identification and implementation of appropriate policy instruments to help sustain the rural economy in the future. They also aim to strengthen the establishment of markets for nature which overcome institutional constraints. This timely new book explores emerging perspectives on multifunctionality in agriculture and the rural environment. It will be widely read by academics, researchers and policymakers with an interest in agricultural and resource economics, environmental governance and sustainable development.

Author : Henry Buller,Keith Hoggart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351791120

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Agricultural Transformation, Food and Environment by Henry Buller,Keith Hoggart Pdf

This title was first published in 2001. An interdisciplinary team of leading European scholars bring together case studies from Western and Eastern Europe to illustrate and critically analyze the shifting relationships of agricultural, environmental and food policy in Europe. In the most comprehensive book of its kind it examines the critical changes, both in agricultural, environmental and food politics and the way these domains have been investigated by European social scientists. The book evaluates specific changes, focussing in particular on agricultural restructuring (in the face of globalization, Europeanization and the collapse of the Soviet model of agricultural organization), agriculture-environmental relations and consumer preferences. Beginning by examining the degree to which Europe offers a unique and identifiable rural experience, the book includes a critical re-examination of the process of agricultural transformation. In the light of contemporary events and the over-seductive and essentially mythical notion of post-productivism.

Author : Hubert Wiggering,Hans-Peter Ende,Andrea Knierim,Marina Pintar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783642041723

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Innovations in European Rural Landscapes by Hubert Wiggering,Hans-Peter Ende,Andrea Knierim,Marina Pintar Pdf

Rural regions in Europe are evolving under powerful boundary conditions such as globalisation, socio-cultural transformations and climate change, which in turn increases natural hazards. The regional land use and the evolvement of landscapes is increasingly shaped trends and drivers like infrastructural, energy or housing needs, globalised agricultural markets, and consumption habits. To face these challenges and to balance competitiveness with social cohesion, the "InnoLand research and development network" induces and accompanies promising land use innovations at the landscape scale in 10 European rural regions. Based on a common conceptual approach among the InnoLand partners, the development and implementation of new competitive strategies is conducted as a science-practice dialogue with strong commitment to the regional policy design for rural development. With this book, the network partners provide an overview and a comparative analysis of selected experimental regional approaches and give examples for the successful tackling of future opportunities and threats.

Author : Grace Skogstad,Amy Verdun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317988533

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The Common Agricultural Policy by Grace Skogstad,Amy Verdun Pdf

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a unique agricultural policy worldwide. For many years, its status as the only common European Community (EC) policy governed by EC institutions put it at the heart of European integration. Today the CAP is not the only common European Union (EU) policy. Even while it remains the sole instance of a regionally integrated agricultural policy, the CAP no longer embodies the same degree of cross-national harmonization of agricultural policy among EC/EU member states that it once did. The CAP has undergone policy reforms in the past two decades and these reforms have spawned a host of questions. What has caused the CAP to reform? How path-breaking are CAP reforms? Are they consistent with founding CAP goals or do they encompass new ideas about agriculture’s place in the economy and society? And what are the consequences of agricultural policy reforms: for European farmers, consumers and taxpayers; for European ‘public goods’ such as environmental sustainability and preservation of rural communities and landscapes; and for third parties outside the EU, including the WTO? This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Integration.

Author : Floor Brouwer,Philip Lowe
Publisher : CABI
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 0851999581

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CAP Regimes and the European Countryside by Floor Brouwer,Philip Lowe Pdf

This book reviews assessments on the environmental effects of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and assesses the contribution of agricultural policy to environmental quality in the EU. It focuses on the role of agricultural policy in reducing harmful effects and/or creating benefits to the physical environment, landscape and nature. Emphasis is given to comparative studies, rather than any limited to one country. The commodity regimes of the CAP ' e.g. the beef, wine and olive oil regimes ' are considered in detail.

Author : Hugh Clout
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351391269

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Routledge Revivals: A Rural Policy for the EEC (1984) by Hugh Clout Pdf

First published in 1984, Hugh Clout’s work contributes to one of the most debated and important topics of the time, the European Economic Community. Starting from the Mid-20th century, Clout explains the profound socio-economic and environmental changes that effected the countryside of Western Europe. This work shows how the EEC’s wide-ranging Common Agricultural Policy added a measure of uniformity to farm policies. Clout reveals that the transformation however was not an entirely healthy one. The broad process of agricultural modernisation reinforced the numerical decline of farm workers throughout Western Europe, weakened many rural communities, and served to accentuate depopulation. Clout’s work ultimately argues forcibly that to produce such a programme for managing rural Europe would be a major challenge for the EEC in the future.

Author : Joseph A. McMahon
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781781002551

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EU Agricultural Law and Policy by Joseph A. McMahon Pdf

Following an introductory discussion of the Treaty provisions on agriculture, this illuminating work examines the four regulations that currently govern the Common Agricultural Policy in the areas of Direct Payments, Rural Development, Finance, and the Common Organisation of the markets and considers their interpretation by the European Courts. It concludes with an astute assessment of the proposals for further reform, which will give Member States greater discretion in fine-tuning the principles of the policy established at European level to the particular characteristics of their agricultural sector.

Author : Carlo Rega
Publisher : Springer
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319057590

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Landscape Planning and Rural Development by Carlo Rega Pdf

This book aims to contribute to the current debate on how to integrate rural development policies and landscape planning in rural areas. It highlights the key issues at stake and the possibilities for synergies between landscape planning and policies in light of European development policies, particularly the EU’s Rural Development Policy and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Case studies from different rural contexts and landscapes are provided, illustrating tools and options to make the advocated integration operational. Recommendations and guidance to policy making are proposed. The case studies presented cover 1) the use of visual assessment techniques to support landscape planning in rural areas; 2) participative applications of landscape assessment techniques in peri-urban areas; 3) multi-scale approaches to landscape management in Alpine areas and 4) the application of landscape economic evaluation to foster rural development strategies.

Author : John M. Bryden,Sophia Efstratoglou,Tibor Ferenczi,Karlheinz Knickel,Tom Johnson,Karen Refsgaard,Kenneth J. Thomson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136829093

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Towards Sustainable Rural Regions in Europe by John M. Bryden,Sophia Efstratoglou,Tibor Ferenczi,Karlheinz Knickel,Tom Johnson,Karen Refsgaard,Kenneth J. Thomson Pdf

This book presents the methodology and results of a three-year, eleven-country science-to-policy research project – Toward a Policy Model of Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development – undertaken between 2005 and 2008 and financed under the European Union's Sixth Framework program. It deals with an important contemporary policy issue: how best to ensure that an agriculturally-based policy can contribute to the development of rural regions. It tackles this problem in a number of different but complementary ways, primarily by the development of a unique and innovative dynamic systems model, POMMARD (a Policy Model of Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development).