Sustaining Agriculture and the Rural Economy: Governance, Policy and Multifunctionality (Advances in Ecological Economics Series)

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Author: Floor Brouwer

ISBN-10: 1843762560

ISBN-13: 9781843762560

Category: Agricultural Economics

This collection offers strategies for sustainable management practices that support the multiple functions of agriculture and natural resources in the rural countryside. It also offers strategies for implementing those practices through the adoption of suitable instruments. Brouwer (natural resource management, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Wageningen U., the Netherlands) has grouped the papers under four headings: concept and policy design; case studies of multifunctionality;...

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1Introduction12Multifunctionality as an agricultural and rural policy concept153Jointness of production as a market concept364Methodologies for agri-environmental policy design565Multifunctionality in European agriculture816Assessing multifunctionality of European livestock systems1047Integrated rural development in mountain areas1248The dynamics of local survival in Greek LFAs1449Institutional approaches to sustain rural landscapes in France16210Multifunctionality in agriculture and the contestable public domain in the Netherlands18311Functions of agriculture in urban society in the Netherlands20412Olive oil production and the rural economy in Spain22313Institutions for sustainable agriculture in central and eastern Europe24714Segregation and multifunctionality in New Zealand landscapes26615The multiple roles of agriculture in developing countries28616Multifunctionality and trade disciplines in North America30717Methodology and action : economic rationales and agri-environmental policy choices331