"Whilst agricultural landscapes are products of the local ecosystem and community in which they are situated, they are becoming increasingly affected by the same global issues, and are converging under the dynamics of globalisation. Combining landscape ecological research and an examination of relevant public policy, this book investigates the dynamic relationship between agricultural landscapes and the global change processes, such as urbanisation, by which they are being transformed. Landscape change is analysed in the context of biophysical patterns, market dynamics, and specific public policy frameworks, through a series of case studies from different OECD countries spanning Europe, Asia Pacific and North America. Particular emphasis is placed upon the way that landscapes are changing under differing policies of agricultural subsidy including the EU Common Agricultural Policy. This is an ideal resource for graduate students and researchers in landscape ecology and agriculture as well as policy analysts working in the agricultural sector"--Provided by publisher.
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Analysis of the dynamic relationship between agricultural landscapes and the global change processes by which they are being transformed.
Preface;
1. Globalisation and the sustainability of agricultural
landscapes Jųrgen Primdahl and Simon Swaffield;
2. Agricultural
liberalisation, multifunctionality and the WTO: competing agendas for the
future of farmed landscapes Clive Potter;
3. Globalisation of agricultural
landscapes: a land systems approach Anette Reenberg, Tobias Langanke, Sųren
Bech Pilgaard Kristensen and Tina Svan Colding;
4. Agricultural landscape
changes through globalisation and biodiversity effects Jacques Baudry,
Santiago Poggio, Francoise Burel and Catherine Laurent;
5. Swiss agricultural
policy reform: landscape changes in consequence of national agricultural
policy and international competition pressure Nadja El Benni and Bernard
Lehmann;
6. Local landscape consequences of macro scale policy reform: the
New Zealand experiment Simon Swaffield;
7. Rural landscape differentiation in
the face of changing demands and policies: a typology of rural areas in
Portugal Teresa Pinto-Correia;
8. Globalisation and the local agricultural
landscape: current change patterns and public policy interventions Jųrgen
Primdahl;
9. From totalitarian to democratic landscapes: the transition in
Estonia Hannes Palang and Anu Printsmann;
10. Rural landscape change as a
product of US federal policy Joan Nassauer;
11. New approaches for
urban-rural areas in Dutch spatial planning Marjan Hidding and Marcel
Pleijte;
12. Restoring agricultural landscapes in shrinking cities:
re-inventing traditional concepts in Japanese planning Makoto Yokohari, Marco
Amati, Jay Bolthouse and Hideharu Kurita;
13. Globalisation and the
sustainability of agricultural landscape systems: emerging themes and a
research and policy agenda Jųrgen Primdahl and Simon Swaffield; Index.
Jųrgen Primdahl is Professor of Countryside and Landscape Planning at the Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a leading European specialist on agricultural landscape change and landscape stewardship policies. He is currently involved in international research concerning public policy interventions and the interface of globalisation and local landscape sustainability. Simon Swaffield is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand. He has researched and published extensively on contemporary patterns, processes, and perceptions of landscape change in New Zealand. In 2007 he received the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Award for Research and Communication.
