Environmental indicators and agricultural policy /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 1999.
• Subjects: Agriculture > Environmental aspects > European Union countries.; Agriculture and state > Environmental aspects > European Union countries.; Environmental indicators > European Union countries.; Agricultural Economics.; Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000); Policy and Planning.; Natural Resources (General); Agricultural policy.; Biodiversity.; CAP.; Environmental assessment.; Environmental impact.; Indicators.; Landscape.; Pollution.; Electronic books.
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The book contains edited and revised versions of 16 selected papers presented at the workshop 'Towards operationalization of the effects of CAP on environment, landscape and nature: exploration of indicator needs' held in Wageningen in April 1997. It reviews, from a European perspective, t...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Floor Brouwer and Bob Crabtree
• Theoretical Considerations in the Development of Environmental Indicators / Eirik Romstad
• Environmental Indicators for Agriculture : Overview in OECD Countries / Kevin Parris
• Agricultural Sector Pressure Indicators in the European Union / Jochen Jesinghaus
• Agri-environmental Indicators in the European Union : Policy Requirements and Data Availability / Floor Brouwer
• Establishing Targets to Assess Agricultural Impacts on European Landscapes / Dirk M. Wascher, Marta Múgica and Hubert Gulinck
• Measuring the Impacts of Agriculture on Biodiversity / Graham Tucker
• Nature Quality Indicators in Agriculture / Jaap van Wenum, Jan Buys and Ada Wossink
• Indicators for High Nature Value Farming Systems in Europe / David Baldock
• Agri-environmental Indicators for Extensive Land-use Systems in the Iberian Peninsula / Begoña Peco, Juan E. Malo, Juan J. Oñate, Francisco Suárez and José Sumpsi
• Towards Environmental Pressure Indicators for Pesticide Impacts / Arie Oskam and Rob Vijftigschild
• Site-specific Water-quality Indicators in Germany / Stephan Dabbert, Bernard Kilian and Sabine Sprenger
• Nutrient Balances and the Implementation of Agricultural Policy Measures in Finland / Reijo Pirttijärvi, Seppo Rekolainen and Juha Grönroos
• Sustainability Indicators for Multiple Land Use in the Uplands / Bob Crabtree
• Implementation of Environmental Indicators in Policy Information Systems in Germany / Markus Meudt
• Criteria and Indicators : Experience in the Forestry Sector / Ewald Rametsteiner
• Attitudinal and Institutional Indicators for Sustainable Agriculture / Philip Lowe, Neil Ward and Clive Potter
• Discussion and Conclusions / Bob Crabtree and Floor Brouwer.