Conceptual development of a harmonised method for tracking change and evaluating policy in the agri-environment: The Agri-environmental Footprint Index

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 321-337

  Purvis, Gordon ^a   Louwagie, Geertrui ^a   Northey, Greg ^a   Mortimer, Simon ^b   Park, Julian ^b   Mauchline, Alice ^b   Finn, John ^c   Primdahl, Jørgen ^d   Vejre, Henrik ^d   Vesterager, Jens Peter ^d   Knickel, Karlheinz ^e   Kasperczyk, Nadia ^e   Balázs, Katalin ^f   Vlahos, George ^g   Christopoulos, Stamatios ^g   Peltola, Jukka ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c TEAGASC   (Ireland)

^d DANISH FOREST LANDSCAPE RES INST   (Denmark)

^e GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^g AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^h FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Biodiversity; Environmental quality; Index based evaluation; Landscape; Multiple criteria analysis; Natural resources; Participatory approach

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; AIR QUALITY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CROP PRODUCTION; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPEAN UNION; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL QUALITY; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 64449088583     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2009.01.005     Document Type: Article

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