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Informationen zum Autor Ian Hodge is Professor of Rural Economy in the Department of Land Economy and Fellow of Hughes Hall at the University of Cambridge, where he has held appointments since 1983. He has over 40 years' experience of working in the areas of agricultural and environmental economics and policy, rural development and land use and countryside governance. He is currently a member of the Defra Economic Advisory Panel, previously a member of the MAFF/Defra Agricultural Economics Academic Panel, English Nature Socio-Economic Advisory Group, MAFF Task Force for the Hills and was a technical advisor to the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Review Group. Klappentext An institutional analysis of environmental planning and management of the rural environment and of the delivery of ecosystem services. Zusammenfassung This book is carefully developed to meet the needs of anyone studying or interested in agricultural sciences! countryside management! the environment and rural geography. An examination of institutions that determine the delivery of ecosystem services is provided! alongside an institutional analysis of planning and managing land and the rural environment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. The place of the countryside; 2. Institutions, property and governance; 3. Institutions in the countryside; Part II. Historical Models: 4. Co-operation for production: common fields and enclosure; 5. Delivering diversity: the great estates and the management of the land; Part III. Governance under Sectoral Policies: 6. Agricultural policies, farming and the environment; 7. Land, development and planning; 8. Protected areas: the example of National Parks; 9. Wildlife conservation: National Nature Reserves, Sites of Special Scientific Interest and large-scale conservation areas; 10. Public rights of way and access to the countryside; 11. The control of agricultural pollution; 12. The development of agri-environment policy; Part IV. Alternative Approaches to Governance: 13. Reconstituting markets; 14. Co-ordination, co-operation and collective action; 15. Public land ownership; Part V. Conclusions: 16. Conclusions: ecosystem governance and resilient countrysides; References; Index....
