Climate Change Mitigation and European Land Use Policies [OP] - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0851991858 ISBN 13: 9780851991856

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

The UN Convention on Climate Change requires countries to reduce their polluting greenhouse gas emissions from all sources including agriculture, forestry and land use. Emissions associated with land use are inherent in modern farming and forestry practices, with the commitments under the Convention representing a clear challenge to restructuring of Europe’s agriculture and forestry policies.

This book primarily considers the actions of Europe and other regions in reducing land use related greenhouse gas fluxes, while recognising that the array of economic and political pressures for CAP reform and sustainable land use are fundamentally intertwined. The book is aimed at practitioners, academics and policy makers in the field of agriculture and forestry who wish to understand the importance of the global emissions issue for European and global land use. Individual contributors, from 10 countries, consider greenhouse gas emissions at the sub-national, national, EU and global scales. Efficiency, equity and implications of policy in this area are the primary focus of the volume.

About this title

About the Authors

Neil Adger is Lecturer in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia.

Davide Pettenella is at the University of Padova, Italy.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0851991858
• ISBN 13: 9780851991856
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Adger W. N., Pettenella D., Whitby M.