Sustaining Agriculture and the Rural Environment: Governance, Policy and Multifunctionality - Couverture rigide

 
9781843762560: Sustaining Agriculture and the Rural Environment: Governance, Policy and Multifunctionality
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1843762560 ISBN 13 : 9781843762560
Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

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.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l?auteur

Edited by Floor Brouwer, Senior Research Scholar, Wageningen Research, the Netherlands

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1843762560
ISBN 13 
9781843762560
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
384
Éditeur
Brouwer Floor
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible