Organic farming has experienced a major break through in Europe during the 1990s. The
suggestion here, is to see it as an implantation of post‐modernist values into agriculture and …

The quest for policy integration crystallized in the 1990s as awareness was growing that the
current supply of narrow, sectoral, and little coordinated, or even overlapping and conflicting …

Since 1992 the provision of agri-environmental schemes (AESs) has been obligatory for
member states of the European Union. However, decisions concerning the actual design of …

In Europe the distribution of organic farming has increased along with growing political
support during the 1990s-including a common EU definition of organic farming and financial …

A continent of socio-economic and environmental diversity Because of the socio-economic
and environmental diversity of Europe's rural areas, there is no single, overarching problem …

In response to wide‐ranging criticism of agricultural policy, especially within Western
industrialized countries, new frameworks of justification are emerging and new hybrid policy …

This introductory chapter presents the European model of agriculture through a discussion
of policy objectives, multifunctionality, and the degressivity debate on the concept of …

This title was first published in 2001. An interdisciplinary team of leading European scholars
bring together case studies from Western and Eastern Europe to illustrate and critically …

It is a passage which could well stand as a commentary for the present state of the Western
Alliance. Two cultures with similar intellectual accomplishments, identical in race, and not …

The manifestation and evolution of socio-economic development disparities among different
regions owes to the complex interactions among a variety of economic, social …