1st Edition

Agricultural Transformation, Food and Environment Perspectives on European Rural Policy and Planning - Volume 1

Edited By Henry Buller, Keith Hoggart Copyright 2001
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

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 analyze the shifting relationships of agricultural, environmental and food policy in Europe. In the most comprehensive book of its kind it examines the critical changes, both in agricultural, environmental and food... Read more
Contents: Is this the European model?, Henry Buller; European farming and world markets, Jean-Paul Charvet; Changing passions for food in Europe, Mara Miele; Political mutation and agricultural change in Eastern Europe, Pierre Lenormand; The impact of state deregulation on agriculture and the food chain: lessons from Russia, Larisa Mokrushina; Agricultural development and environmental regulation in Ireland, Hilary Tovey; European processes of environmentalization in agriculture: a view from Spain, Angel Paniagua; Is it the same animal?, Keith Hoggart.

Biography

Henry Buller, Professor of Rural Studies, Cheltenham and Gloucester College, and Maître de Conférences in Geography at the University of Paris 7. Keith Hoggart, Professor of Geography, King’s College London.

’The book is relevant to rural policy-makers, practitioners and researchers from the economic, social or regional science perspective.’ Aslib Book Guide 'This book can be recommended particularly to readers who want to get a broad overview of the variety of issues related to agriculture and rurality in Europe.' Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 'The chapters in this book make a good read. This reviewer will certainly be recommending this book to his students.' Journal of Environmental Planning and Management '...should find a place in the library of the rural researcher.' Progress in Human Geography