Sustainable land management: strategies to cope with the marginalisation of agriculture / edited by F.Brouwer...et al

Contributor(s):

Brouwer, F [ed.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Edward Elgar Pub, 2008. Glos:Description: xiii,252pISBN:

9781845429027

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DDC classification:

333 SUS

Contents:

1. Introduction / Floor Brouwer and Teunis van Rheenen -- Partt. I. Understanding Marginalisation and Multifunctionality -- 2. Understanding marginalisation in the periphery of Europe: a multidimensional process / Teresa Pinto-Correia and Bas Breman -- 3. Multifunctionality: what do we know of it? / Patrick Caron and Dominique Cairol -- 4. The clock is ticking for rural America / Michael Duffy -- Partt. II. Efforts to Strengthen Viability of Agriculture -- 5. Northern European features and vulnerability to marginalisation: exploring indicators and modes of coping / Shivcharn S. Dhillion ... [et al.] -- 6. Marginalisation of rural economies in the Czech Republic and Hungary / Alajos Fehér ... [et al.] -- 7. Rural amenities in mountain areas / Thomas Dax and Georg Wiesinger -- 8. Marginalisation in Spanish dry areas: the case of Villafáfila Lagoons Reserve / Jordi Rosell, Lourdes Viladomiu and Anna Zamora -- 9. How visible is marginalisation in Europe? / Teunis van Rheenen and Floor Brouwer -- Part. III. Sustainable Land Management Practices -- 10. High nature value farming and the agri-food chain in Japan / Yoichi Matsuki and Miki Nagamatsu -- 11. Social capital: a dynamic force against marginalisation? / Georg Wiesinger ... [et al.] -- 12. Understanding the quality of land in agricultural land use systems / Anna Martha Elgersma ... [et al.] -- 13. Emerging perspectives on changing land management practices / Floor Brouwer, Teunis van Rheenen and Shivcharn S. Dhillion.

Summary: "In large parts of the world, the reduction in viability of agriculture and rural areas is an escalating problem. Driven by a range of factors, including insufficient economic returns from land used agriculturally, ageing populations in rural areas and limited economic perspectives from agriculture and other land-based activities, marginalisation could induce harmful abandonment of the land or the loss of biodiversity and landscape features. New perspectives arise in rural areas and multifunctionality is often seen as a strategy to cope with marginalisation. This important new book offers a contemporary overview of strategies employed to cope with marginalisation of the land and improve viability of the rural countryside. The volume is based on detailed case studies undertaken in Europe, the USA, Japan and a number of developing countries."--Jacket

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1. Introduction / Floor Brouwer and Teunis van Rheenen --
Partt. I. Understanding Marginalisation and Multifunctionality --
2. Understanding marginalisation in the periphery of Europe: a multidimensional process / Teresa Pinto-Correia and Bas Breman -- 3. Multifunctionality: what do we know of it? / Patrick Caron and Dominique Cairol --
4. The clock is ticking for rural America / Michael Duffy --
Partt. II. Efforts to Strengthen Viability of Agriculture --
5. Northern European features and vulnerability to marginalisation: exploring indicators and modes of coping / Shivcharn S. Dhillion ... [et al.] --
6. Marginalisation of rural economies in the Czech Republic and Hungary / Alajos Fehér ... [et al.] --
7. Rural amenities in mountain areas / Thomas Dax and Georg Wiesinger --
8. Marginalisation in Spanish dry areas: the case of Villafáfila Lagoons Reserve / Jordi Rosell, Lourdes Viladomiu and Anna Zamora --
9. How visible is marginalisation in Europe? / Teunis van Rheenen and Floor Brouwer --
Part. III. Sustainable Land Management Practices --
10. High nature value farming and the agri-food chain in Japan / Yoichi Matsuki and Miki Nagamatsu --
11. Social capital: a dynamic force against marginalisation? / Georg Wiesinger ... [et al.] --
12. Understanding the quality of land in agricultural land use systems / Anna Martha Elgersma ... [et al.] --
13. Emerging perspectives on changing land management practices / Floor Brouwer, Teunis van Rheenen and Shivcharn S. Dhillion.

"In large parts of the world, the reduction in viability of agriculture and rural areas is an escalating problem. Driven by a range of factors, including insufficient economic returns from land used agriculturally, ageing populations in rural areas and limited economic perspectives from agriculture and other land-based activities, marginalisation could induce harmful abandonment of the land or the loss of biodiversity and landscape features. New perspectives arise in rural areas and multifunctionality is often seen as a strategy to cope with marginalisation. This important new book offers a contemporary overview of strategies employed to cope with marginalisation of the land and improve viability of the rural countryside. The volume is based on detailed case studies undertaken in Europe, the USA, Japan and a number of developing countries."--Jacket

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