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Checklist for Sustainable Landscape Management: Final Report of the EU Concerted Action AIR3-CT93-1210

van Mansvelt, J.D.; van der Lubbe, M.J.

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Table of contents
  • Cover
  • Copyright Pageiv
  • Contentsv
  • Preface1
  • Summary4
  • Chapter 1. Introduction9
  • 1.1 Background and problem statement9
  • 1.2 Objectives17
  • 1.3 Approach18
  • 1.4 Structure of the report20
  • Chapter 2. Research Methods24
  • 2.1 Outline of a unifying concept24
  • 2.2 On the complementarity of interdisciplinary Holism and disciplinary reductionism33
  • 2.3 Dissemination of results36
  • Chapter 3. Results38
  • 3.1 Introduction38
  • 3.2 Explanation of the checklist41
  • 3.3 Conclusions135
  • Chapter 4. Performances of organic agriculture137
  • 4.1 Theory and literature137
  • 4.2 Empirical data collected from literature148
  • Chapter 5. Uses and users153
  • 5.1 Overview of possible uses and users154
  • 5.2 Indicative links with funding156
  • Chapter 6. References157
  • Annex 1. Participants176
  • Annex 2. Checklist's compliance with other standards for sustainable and organic agriculture180
Book details
  • Vendor Elsevier S & T
  • SKU 9780444501592
  • ISBN-13 9780080528984
  • Author van Mansvelt, J.D.; van der Lubbe, M.J.
  • Category Nature
  • Subject Natural Resources

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This work is an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, widely-calibrated checklist for EU sustainable landscape management, which is intended to serve both as an analytical tool of reference as well as a design tool for local, regional and European policy making on sustainable developments.

The tool has been developed out of a multidisciplinary study in EU countries which was designed to find out what would be the overall requirements for a sustainable management of the landscape of rural areas. Could these stipulations be brought together in a comprehensive system with sufficient consistency to comply with the notion that the landscape is an entity, which should be managed accordingly? Cooperation of the scientific experts with those involved in the practical side, and alternating plenary reporting with subgroup visits to farms in the rural landscapes of the participants' countries, allowed for the development of some truly interdisciplinary teamwork. Organic agriculture has been included to find out how organic agriculture contributes to the rural landscape.