Combining Approaches to Support High Nature Value Farmland in Southern Transylvania, Romania

Hacquetia

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 53-63

  Sutcliffe, Laura ^a,b   Akeroyd, John ^b   Page, Nat ^b   Popa, Razvan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Funda ia ADEPT Transilvania   (Romania)

Author keywords

Common Agricultural Policy; Eastern Europe; farmland biodiversity; HNV; low intensity agriculture; Natura 2000; nature conservation; NGO

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940838206     PISSN: 15814661     EISSN: 18549829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/hacq-2015-0011     Document Type: Article

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