Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 1999-10-18
Category :
ISBN : 9264173943
This book points out that because many natural and cultural features are public goods, with limited markets and hazy property rights, public policies are needed to strike the delicate balance between supply and demand.
Author : Yukiya Saika
Publisher : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN :
The future of rural areas is high on the domestic and international policy agenda. Restructuring of the agricultural sector, and accompanying reform of agricultural policies, and the challenge of meeting sustainable development objectives are key preoc
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 2001-01-12
Category :
ISBN : 9264192123
This volume reviews a range of different valuation methodologies -- stated preferences, cost-benefit, revealed preferences, and others -- and looks at how these different approaches influence choices in rural policy.
Author : Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9789287143617
This report is the proceedings of a colloquy held in Riga, 9-11 September 1999. The colloquy examined the conditions and results of the integration of biological and landscape diversity conservation, as well as the socio-economic aspects of tourism development programmes in western, central and eastern Europe. The colloquy focused on three pilot studies conducted by the Council of Europe on sustainable and balanced tourism development in Latvia, Ukraine and Romania.
Author : Gary P. Green
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845428075
While many rural areas continue to experience depopulation and economic decline, others are facing rapid in migration, as well as employment and income growth. Much of this growth is due to the presence and use of amenity resources, broadly defined as qualities of a region that make it an attractive place to live and work. Rather than extracting natural resources for external markets, these communities have begun to build economies based on promoting environmental quality. Amenities and Rural Development explores the paradigmatic shift in how we view land resources and the potential for development in amenity-rich rural regions.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,70 MB
Release : 2007-06-06
Category :
ISBN : 9264013938
This review discusses the challenges and opportunities of German rural areas.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2006-06-26
Category :
ISBN : 9264023917
The report highlights the diverse challenges facing rural areas, their unused potential, and the inability of sectoral policy alone to address these challenges.
Author : Floor Brouwer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781781958032
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 : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 2009-03-18
Category :
ISBN : 9264415521
Land is a key input into agricultural production and the agricultural sector remains the main user of rural land in most OECD countries. How land is managed in agriculture, and the conversion of farmland to non-agricultural uses, are likely to have implications not only for the provision of food, but also for the supply of public goods such as rural amenities, as well as for the quantity and quality of water.
Author : Annette Piorr
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 3540794700
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.
