Despite the increasing complexity in water management decision processes the actual use of models in those processes is not very common. Particularly in participatory water management the potential participants do not seem to find access to models used or usable for decision-making. The article...

The paper presents the results of mid-term-evaluation of rural development plans of five German Federal States. It focuses on a comparative analysis of the implementation of Natura-2000-Payments (Code 213) and shows the relationship between voluntariness on one hand and administrative law in...

Especially in environmentally sensitive agricultural landscapes, agriculture cannot define its aims by itself - it has to account for a number of demands of different groups of society. For example, agriculture is expected to produce food and at the same time contribute to the protection of...

[fre] La politique Agricole Commune a pour conséquence deux types de transferts de revenus entre pays- membres: d'une part les transferts réalisés par le «budget agricole» de la Communauté, d'autre part les transferts gui ont lieu par l'intermédiaire du commerce agricole...

[eng] This article seeks to survey the evolution of the French and German agricultural policy positions from the creation of the EEC to the negotiations on the Agenda 2000. The fact that France favoured price cuts while the Federal Republic pleaded for quantitative restrictions, is explained...

[eng] On the basis of theoretical models and statistical material on the EEC's foreign trade, the authors analyse the relative development of the EEC's agricultural imports from developing countries, as compared to that of agricultural imports from developed third countries. They show how the...

[fre] Avec l'adhésion de l'Allemagne de l'Est à la République fédérale d'Allemagne, la structure de l'agriculture allemande s'est considérablement modifiée. Il est montré que ces bouleversements ont changé partiellement les instruments et la "philosophie" de la politique agricole...

Land use concepts for ecologically particularly sensitive agricultural landscapes are often focussed on the attainment of specific environmental objectives in specific areas, neglecting both socio-economic effects, in particular income effects, and the farmers' income-driven production responses...