Chapter 3. European Integration: A Historical Overview
Chapter 4. European Agriculture and the Bioeconomy: A Historical Overview
Chapter 5. EU Institutions and Decision Making Processes
Chapter 6. EU Budgetary Politics and Its Implications for the Bioeconomy
Chapter 7. WTO Rules on Domestic Support for Agriculture and Food Safety: Institutional Adaptation and Institutional Transformation in the Governance of the Bioeconomy
Chapter 8. Future Developments of the Institutional Framework
Part III Agriculture
Chapter 9. Common Market Organisation
Chapter 10. Direct Income Support and Cross-Compliance
Chapter 11. Animal Health Policy
Chapter 12. Plant Health and Plant Protection Policies
Chapter 13. Environment and Agriculture
Chapter 14. Assessment of the CAP after 2020
Liesbeth Dries is Associate Professor in the Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group at Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
Wim Heijman is Professor of Regional Economics in the Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group at Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
Roel Jongeneel is Assistant Professor in the Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group at Wageningen University, and Senior Scientist at Wageningen Economic Research, The Netherlands.
Kai Purnhagen is Associate Professor in the Law and Governance at Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
Justus Wesseler is Professor and chair of the Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. His research work is on bioeconomy economics and policies. The major focus is on the contribution of value chains to improve sustainability and the impact of new technologies and regulations on the value chain in this respect. He is member of the International Consortium of Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR), co-editor of AgBioForum, and coordinator of the EU funded project Monitoring the Bioeconomy (BioMonitor). He is the Series Editor for Palgrave Advances in Bioeconomy: Economics and Policies.
This two-volume book provides an important overview to EU economic and policy issues related to the development of the bioeconomy. What have been the recent trends and what are the implications for future economic development and policy making? Where does EU bioeconomy policy sit within an international context and what are the financial frameworks behind them?
Volume I explores the economic theory of bioeconomy policy, as well as European integration, European agriculture, EU budget and future developments in EU agriculture policies.