Towards Sustainable Rural Regions in Europe: Exploring Inter-Relationships Between Rural Policies, Farming, Environment, Demographics, Regional Econom [Hardcover]

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).

1.&nbsp;A New Approach to Multifunctionality, Sustainable Rural Development, and Analysis of Policy Outcomes&nbsp; John M. Bryden, Amaia Arandia, Liam Dunne and Karlheinz Knickel&nbsp; 2.&nbsp;Exploring Inter-Relationships between the Multiple Functions of Farming, the Development of Rural Regions, and Policies: Theory and Methodology&nbsp; John M. Bryden, Thomas Dax, Sophia Efstratoglou, Tom Johnson and Karen Refsgaard&nbsp; 3.&nbsp;Overview of the Regions Studied: A Context Analysis&nbsp; Karen Refsgaard, Atilla Jambor and Arild Spiss?y&nbsp; 4.&nbsp;Multifunctionality in Agriculture and Rural Development: An Empirical Analysis Based on Survey Data from Eleven European Regions&nbsp; Karlheinz Knickel, Kerstin Lehmann and Melanie Kroeger&nbsp; 5. Developing and Adapting the POMMARD Model&nbsp; Tom Johnson, Sara Alva-Lizarraga, Karen Refsgaard, Thanassos Kampas, Demetris Psaltopoulos and Gemma Frances&nbsp; 6.&nbsp;Future Policy Scenarios&nbsp; Kenneth J. Thomson, John M. Bryden <lsy