Towards Sustainable Rural Regions in Europe
Exploring Inter-Relationships Between Rural Policies, Farming, Environment, Demographics, Regional Economies and Quality of Life Using System Dynamics| By: | Bryden, John M.; Efstratoglou, Sophia; Ferenczi, Tibor; Knickel, Karlheinz; Johnson, Tom; Refsgaard, |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780415882255 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781136829086 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2011 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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This book presents the methodology and results of a three-year, eleven-country science-to-policy research project – Toward a Policy Model of Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development – undertaken between 2005 and 2008 and financed under the European Union's Sixth Framework program. It deals with an important contemporary policy issue: how best to ensure that an agriculturally-based policy can contribute to the development of rural regions. It tackles this problem in a number of different but complementary ways, primarily by the development of a unique and innovative dynamic systems model, POMMARD (a Policy Model of Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development).