Role of Institutions in Rural Policies and Agricultural Markets

Focuses on the three areas of interest in institutions: policy implementation, market and supply chain organisation and management of rural resources and rural systems. The chapters cover insights on the significance of institutions on transaction costs, policy analysis, agri-environmental policies, social capital and bottom-up approaches.

List of contents

Abbreviated. Part 1: TCE, a state-of-the-art. Part 2: Policy reform, institutional determinants and outcomes. Part 3: Formalisation of the links between institutions and policy. Part 4: Institutions in policy analysis. Part 5: Market metamorphosis and chain dynamics. Part 6. Arrangements in input markets. Part 7: New institutions in agro-environmental policies and public good delivery. Part 8: Role of social capital and bottom-up approaches in rural development.

Summary

Focuses on the three areas of interest in institutions: policy implementation, market and supply chain organisation and management of rural resources and rural systems. The chapters cover insights on the significance of institutions on transaction costs, policy analysis, agri-environmental policies, social capital and bottom-up approaches.

Product details

• Authors: European Association of Agricultural Eco, Guido Van Huylenbroeck, Van G. Huylenbroeck
• Assisted by: Guido Huylenbroeck (Editor), Guido Van Huylenbroeck (Editor), L Lauwers (Editor), L. Lauwers (Editor), G. Van Huylenbroeck (Editor), W Verbeke (Editor), W. Verbeke (Editor)
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2004
• EAN: 9780444517593
• ISBN: 978-0-444-51759-3
• No. of pages: 484
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 888 g
• Series: 0
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches