The Agri-Environmental Policy of the European Union - The Implementation of the Agri-Environmental Measures within the Common Agricultural Policy in France, Germany, and Portugal

Integrating environmental aims in the agricultural policy of the European Union was a main aim of the 1992 CAP-reform. This book presents a study of the socio-economic framing conditions as well as the attitudes and orientations within the agricultural population towards the European agri-environmental policy. It is based on a research project in three member countries, France, Germany, and Portugal, where more than 600 farmers have been interviewed. The results indicate that a change towards more ecologically sustainable forms of agricultural production requires much broader political and social support to grow beyond the dimensions of a marginal green subsector of agriculture.

List of contents

Contents: European Union - Reform of Common Agricultural Policy - Agricultural Development in Europe - Comparative Sociological Analysis of the Implementation of Agri-Environmental Measures in France, Germany, and Portugal.

About the author

The Editors: Karl Bruckmeier, sociologist; his research areas include environmental sociology, agricultural and environmental policies. He is senior lecturer and researcher in human ecology, Gothenburg University, Sweden. Wiking Ehlert, sociologist; his research areas include European politics and society. He is professor in Sociology, Osnabrück University, Germany.

Product details

• Assisted by: Karl Bruckmeier (Editor), Wiking Ehlert (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2002
• EAN: 9783631375129
• ISBN: 978-3-631-37512-9
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 14 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 350 g
• Series: Arbeit - Technik - Organisation - Soziales / Work - Technology - Organization - Society; Lang, Peter Frankfurt; Arbeit - Technik - Organisation - Soziales / Work - Technology - Organization - Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education