Incentives for Countryside Management: The Case of Environmentally Sensitive Areas - Softcover

Whitby, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0851988970 ISBN 13: 9780851988979

Publisher: CABI, 1994

Synopsis

During the last decade European agriculture has been dominated by the issues of overproduction and environmental degradation. Against this background a number of proposals to reduce surpluses and protect the environment have been implemented. Among these was the introduction in the UK of environmentally sensitive areas (ESAs) as described in the UK Agriculture Act of 1986, implementing part of an EC regulation on Improving the Efficiency of Agricultural Structures.

ESAs have been set up in areas of the country where wildlife, landscape and recreation are threatened by agricultural change. Farmers, joining on a voluntary basis, are paid to continue farming in an environmentally friendly, traditional manner which is typically extensive and livestock-based. By 1994, the total area covered will be approaching 3 million hectares. This book provides a review and an economic and policy assessment of the first and second rounds of designated ESAs, five years after their inception. Seven chapters examine particular case studies, covering a range of agricultural ecosystems from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Other chapters describe the background to the setting up of ESAs, how the benefits of the policy can be measured and how it compares with alternative policy options. ESA schemes are now being initiated in France and Denmark.

The book addresses a topical issue and is aimed at a wide range of readers concerned with agricultural and environmental economics, policy and management.

About this title

About the Author:

Martin Whitby is Professor of Countryside Management at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and is the author of Incentives for Countryside Management: the Case of ESAs and The European Environment and CAP Reform, among other titles.

About this edition

• Publisher: CABI
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0851988970
• ISBN 13: 9780851988979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304