Nature and Agriculture in the European Union: New Perspectives on Policies that Shape the European Countryside

Nature and agriculture both shape the European countryside and one of the main challenges for the years to come will be to strengthen their interaction for the future development of rural areas. In this valuable and highly topical book, the authors demonstrate how economics and ecology can play a critical role in maintaining and sustaining this relationship.

The book identifies the dilemmas facing European agriculture and explores their economic and ecological consequences. The authors belie...