Conservation policy in traditional farming landscapes

Conservation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 167-175

  Fischer, Joern ^a   Hartel, Tibor ^b,c   Kuemmerle, Tobias ^d,e  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b OVIDIUS UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

CAP reform; Common Agricultural Policy; Community based natural resource management; Eastern Europe; Farmland biodiversity; Romania; Subsistence agriculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862542914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00227.x     Document Type: Article

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