Part I: Firms in the Tourism Industry -- Part II: Temporal and Spatial Perspectives in the Analysis of Tourism -- Part III: The Impacts of Tourism -- Part IV: Tourism Segments and Tourist Behaviours -- Part V: Environmental Perspectives and Tourism Policy.

Purpose: After several reforms of the common agricultural policy, domestic product prices and farm incomes have become more volatile in the EU. Risk-averse farmers are therefore seeking income stabilizing measures. Margin insurance is among the feasible options but is not yet established in the...

Direct payments are the most important expenditure of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). They are mostly spent on decoupled direct payments which are intended to be allocatively neutral. Increasing volumes of such transfers imply that distributive aspects of CAP expenditures become more...

Evaluating sustainable development is becoming increasingly important in policy making, evaluation practice and the scientific world in general. However, at present, there is neither a generally accepted set of measures and evaluation methods, nor specific standards to be met. Sustainable...