The greening of the European common agricultural policy by linking the European-wide obligation of set-aside with voluntary agri-environmental measures on a regional scale

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 509-524

  Berger, Gert ^a   Kaechele, Harald ^b   Pfeffer, Holger ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^b Institute of Socioeconomics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agri environmental measures; Biodiversity; Management; Set aside; Small scale segregation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPE; FARMING SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; POLICY; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 33747153826     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2006.05.006     Document Type: Article

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