Commonage land and farmer uptake of the rural environment protection scheme in Ireland

Land Use Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 345-355

  Van Rensburg, Tom M ^a   Murphy, Eithne ^a   Rocks, Paul ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b Bridgewater Centre ^*  (Ireland)

Author keywords

Agri environmental policy; Common property resource; Common, agricultural policy; Commonage; Environment; REPS; The Republic of Ireland

Indexed keywords

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY; COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FARMERS ATTITUDE; RURAL PLANNING; RURAL POLICY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

BOS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 57049109890     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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