This paper offers an economic value assessment of a nature protection programme in the Veluwe. This programme involves two defragmentation scenarios: the first scenario connects the central part of the Veluwe with the IJssel river forelands in a north-eastern direction, while the second scenario...

"This book aims to explore the avenue of landscape economics and provides the building blocks (from different scientific disciplines) for an economic analysis of landscapes. What exactly constitutes and determines the value of a landscape? It focuses on the value of landscapes in its broadest...

pt. 1. Setting the stage : challenges and reviews -- pt. 2. Appreciate the prerequisite : prespectives on land -- pt. 3. Reorientations and openings : agri-environmental programmes -- pt. 4. Creating a common currency : landscape values -- pt. 5. Outlook : emerging perspectives of resource...

Given the major changes that rural areas have undergone, and are continuing to undergo, serious problems of achieving sustainable development are being experienced. These changes have multiple characters, varying from changes in ecosystem conditions to changes in socio-economic impacts, due to,...