The multi-disciplinary evaluation of a national agri-environment scheme

Carey, Peter; Short, Christopher J; Morris, Carol; Hunt, Janet; Priscott, A; Davis, Mark W.; Finch, Curtis R.; Curry, Nigel; Little, W; Winter, Michael; Parkin, Andrew; Firbank, L. G.

doi:10.1016/s0301-4797(03)00120-8

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“…Specifically, evidence is derived from a series of research projects and commissioned studies into the operation of agri-environment schemes dating back to the early 1990s. These include: interviews with 101 participants (also called ''agreement holders'') and non-participants in the ESA and CSS schemes in two areas of lowland England (Morris and Potter, 1995); a survey of 484 CSS participants, randomly selected from all agreements signed between 1996 and 1999 as part of an environmental monitoring and evaluation exercise conducted for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (Little et al, 2000;Carey et al, 2003), analysis of the files held by DEFRA on these 484 agreements, interviews with CSS Project officers conducted as part of this same monitoring project (Morris and Short, 2000), and a survey of 150 ESA participants (together with an analysis of the corresponding agreement files) assumed to be representative of all agreements signed between 1999 and 2001 (Manchester et al, 2003).…”

Section: The Mcdonaldization Of On-farm Nature Conservation Through Amentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These variously entail scrutiny of their environmental assets (e.g., ecological and landscape surveys of the farm) together with scrutiny, through social survey, of their attitudes toward and experiences with the particular scheme in which they are participating (e.g., Carey et al, 2003).…”

Section: Efficiencymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Likewise, the agri-environment program has been welcomed by numerous organizations with nature conservation and environmental interests. Scientific monitoring of AES also suggests that the schemes have been successful in at least stemming the tide of environmental decline and, in some cases, successful in leading to environmental enhancement (e.g., Carey et al, 2003). Indeed, CSS agreement holders (when interviewed for a monitoring exercise) were able to point to ''an increase in the number of birds on the holding,'' ''more wildlife in the hedges,'' ''improvements in flora as a result of grazing and controlling access,'' and ''the maintenance of floristically diverse pastures'' (Morris, 2004).…”

Section: Predictabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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From burgers to biodiversity? The McDonaldization of on-farm nature conservation in the UK

Morris

Reed

2007

Agric Hum Values

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This paper uses George RitzerÕs account of McDonaldization -the socially transformative process of rationalization -to undertake a critical analysis of agri-environment schemes, the dominant form of on-farm nature conservation in England. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, including social surveys of the participants and non-participants of agri-environment schemes, government files, and interviews with government officials, the four key dimensions of McDonaldization -efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control (through non-human technologies) -are applied to the analysis of agri-environment schemes. The irrationalities emerging from a McDonaldized approach to nature conservation are discussed together with their implications for farmers, nature, and society. In conclusion, the paper points to the emergence of alternative models of on-farm nature conservation that may offer ways of resisting and displacing the McDonaldized version.

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Section: The Mcdonaldization Of On-farm Nature Conservation Through Amentioning

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Morris

Reed

2007

Agric Hum Values

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“…Nowadays, the multifunctionality captures the overall operation of the agricultural complex and its integration with the settlement. By incorporating cultural functions such as visual quality, recreation and historic preservation, multifunctional landscapes can contribute to preservation of landscape history and public enjoyment of the rural environment (Carey et al, 2003). Unlike the more ambiguous term "sustainability", the concept of multifunctionality suggests an opportunity to develop specific goals or targets for ecological, production and cultural functions to improve landscape performance (Taylor Lovell et al, 2010, 330).…”

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Settlement Patterns in an Agrarian Landscape � Principles of Clasiffication in Goriska Brda, Slovenia

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POPOVIC²,

KOSANOVIC³

2015

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Agrarian settlements represent the essential part of the cultural landscape, which is nowadays transforming because of demographic and functional changes, development of transport networks, the agricultural shift from basic food production to a trade and market-oriented activity, and the inflow of urban programmes and forms into rural areas. The complex relationship between the transformative agrarian landscape, the contemporary socioeconomic component of a rural area, and its pattern and form kept from the past opens a new research interest. The study presented in this paper articulates elements of settlement morphology, and landscape and agricultural strategies found in the predominantly winegrowing area of Goriška brda in west Slovenia. The research deals with the development of a classification system of settlements forms, analyses of statistical and spatial data, and the implementation of various methods of settlement morphology, land use and density level investigation and presentation. The detailed study of 15 selected settlements of Goriška brda and their later comparison show various extremes with regard to the ratio between the number of inhabitants (households) and the agricultural area. The perceived and partially present high pressure on agricultural land may be viewed as a direct indicator of the desire to develop the best agricultural land by building, i.e. for living in a settlement. It is therefore necessary to further develop the interdisciplinary approach to establishing the proper connection between the built area and the agrarian landscape in order to preserve the value of agricultural systems while taking care of cultural, tourist and visual values.

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“…Many techniques are based on expert experience. The opinions of experts have also been developed in various multi-discipline studies when conflicts existed with regard to the perception of the various impacts and in the absence of legal points of reference (Tamura et al, 1994;Ghyym, 1999;Petit and van der Werf, 2003;Carey et al, 2003). In our case, a legal framework regulates the spreading of nitrogen on agricultural land but neither odours nor various potentially atmospherepolluting emissions are regulated.…”

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Conventional versus alternative pig production assessed by multicriteria decision analysis

Degré

Debouche

Verheve

2007

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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-Differentiated quality and respect for the environment seem to be linked implicitly, but there is no demonstration of this concept for pig production. Pig production takes on different forms. Conventional pig production occurs side by side with some productions of "differentiated qualities" that are encouraged by the European Union as well as by nations. At the same time, the EU and nations are imposing environmental limitations concerning, for instance, the management of nitrogen and respect for neighbours. Here, we compared environmental impacts of 3 types of production: conventional production, organic production and free-range production. We took into account the process performances of 21 farms in the Walloon Region, Belgium. We compared the global process performances by multicriteria analysis. A jury of 16 experts was questioned to assign a relative importance to the emissions of ammonia, greenhouse gases, molecular nitrogen, odour and nitrogen to effluents. We found that the highest weighting was assigned to the N content of effluents, then to odour diffusion, the emission of ammonia, the emissions of greenhouse gas and finally, the emission of molecular nitrogen got a weak weighting. Our results showed that the relative ordering obtained was: (1) free-range production, (2) organic production and (3) conventional production. Nevertheless, within every sample a significant variability in the performances was observed. The same method applied within every sample enabled the creation of sub-groups. After reordering, we found that the most effective farms of every system of production were classified as top of the class. Thus, our original approach showed that on average the production of differentiated qualities was more environmentally effective than the conventional production. However, the variability of the performances within a system of production was high and it was quite possible for the conventional farms to reach results comparable with those of the best organic and free-range operations. differentiated quality / organic farming / free-range farming / nitrate Directive / ammoniac / odour / Electra III

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The multi-disciplinary evaluation of a national agri-environment scheme

Cited by 61 publications

References 7 publications

From burgers to biodiversity? The McDonaldization of on-farm nature conservation in the UK

From burgers to biodiversity? The McDonaldization of on-farm nature conservation in the UK

Settlement Patterns in an Agrarian Landscape � Principles of Clasiffication in Goriska Brda, Slovenia

Conventional versus alternative pig production assessed by multicriteria decision analysis

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