Rural Politics : Policies for Agriculture, Forestry and the Environment

ISBN-13: 9780415081764 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 356 str.

Michael Winter

Opis

This volume focusses on the key issues affecting rural areas today and examines them in the light of the current agricultural crisis. Issues such as water pollution, forestry, the greening of agricultural policy, as well as mainstream agricultural policy, are of increasing importance in the development of the countryside. Examining the history of agricultural policies and environmental concerns, the book looks in particular at the political parameters to these issues and how concern for the countryside is essentially part of a wider set of political processes.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements. Introduction. Approaches to Policy Chapter 1. The Policy Process Chapter 2. The Institutional Framework Chapter 3. Policy Implementation and Evaluation Agricultural Policy Chapter 4. The Emergence of Agricultural Corporation Chapter 5. The State and the Farmer: Post-War Farm Policy Chapter 6. The Crisis of the Common Agricultural Policy Rural Environmental Policy Chapter 7. The Origins of Environmental Concern Chapter 8. Protecting Landscapes, Habitats and Wildlife Chapter 9. The Greening of Agricultural Policy Chapter 10. Agricultural Pollution Chapter 11. Farming's Rich Relation: Forestry Policy and Politics Chapter 12. Conclusions: Emerging Themes in Rural Policy

O autorze

Michael Winter is Professor of Rural Economy and Society in the Countryside and Community Research Unit at Cheltenham and Gloucester College. Preview books include The Voluntary Principle in Conservation (with Philip Lowe and Graham Cox) and Church and Religion in Rural England (with Douglas Davies and Charles Watkins). He has conducted many research contracts for government agencies concerned with the British countryside.