The Irish agri-environment: How turlough users and non-users view converging EU agendas of Natura 2000 and CAP

Land Use Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 362-373

  Visser, Marjolein ^a   Moran, James ^a   Regan, Eugenie ^a   Gormally, Mike ^a   Skeffington, Micheline Sheehy ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Agri environmental policy; Conservation; High Nature Value farming; Marginal land; Natura 2000; Q methodology; REPS; Republic of Ireland; Turloughs

Indexed keywords

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL LAND; EUROPEAN UNION; FARMERS ATTITUDE; FARMING SYSTEM; GRAZING; LAND MANAGEMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33847161615     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2006.04.004     Document Type: Article

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