Land Use Policy Group
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Developing Common Ideas on Sustainable Rural
Development within Europe
Workshop 23rd January
2008
International Congress Centre
Berlin
The presentations from the workshop will be made available as
soon as possible.
LUPG and the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
are aiming to promote sustainable rural land management and to
safeguard our natural and cultural heritage. Sustainable land
management is crucial in order to address growing demands on the
ecosystems services that are necessary to support life itself. Food
and energy have to be produced in ways which do not harm ecosystems
whilst enhancing landscapes and biodiversity as well as
meeting social and recreational needs.
The main aims of the workshop were:
- To explore the nature of sustainable rural development in
the context of ecosystem services as well as developing ideas
on the future design of integrated rural development policies
from the perspective of both organisations.
- To exchange views and ideas on future policies for rural
Europe. In particular to consider new challenges for rural areas
such as climate change and the recent focus on biofuel
production.
Future Policies for Rural Europe Conference
The
conference proceedings are now available to download (word
file, 580 Kb). For further information on this event,
held 19-20 September 2007, please go to the page dedicated to the
conference. Alternatively open the "Topics" link near the top
right hand of this page and go to "Conferences and Events".
Information available includes the Conference Presentations.
Latest Reports
Response to the European Commission consultation on
the "Health Check" communication
Proceedings of the Future Policies for Rural Europe
Conference (held September 2007).
Cross Compliance - A Policy Options Paper
World timber trade and implementing sustainable
forest management in the United Kingdom.
Retaining the
environmental benefits of set-aside.
Maximising
the provision of public goods from future agri-environment
schemes.
Position Statements
Cross Compliance (2007), Modulation (2007), Decoupling (2007), Set-aside (2007)
These position statements are now also available in Welsh.
Mae'r datganiadau defyllfa yma hefyd ar gael yn Gymraeg.
Datganiad Sefyllfa’r
GPDT -Trawsgydymffurfio (2007), Datganiad Sefyllfa’r GPDT – Modiwleiddio (2007),
Datganiad Sefyllfa’r GPDT – Datgysylltu
(2007), Datganiad Sefyllfa’r GPDT – Neilltir
(2007)
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