Full Description
This title was first published in 2001. An interdisciplinary team of leading European scholars bring together case studies from Western and Eastern Europe to illustrate and critically analyze the shifting relationships of agricultural, environmental and food policy in Europe. In the most comprehensive book of its kind it examines the critical changes, both in agricultural, environmental and food politics and the way these domains have been investigated by European social scientists. The book evaluates specific changes, focussing in particular on agricultural restructuring (in the face of globalization, Europeanization and the collapse of the Soviet model of agricultural organization), agriculture-environmental relations and consumer preferences. Beginning by examining the degree to which Europe offers a unique and identifiable rural experience, the book includes a critical re-examination of the process of agricultural transformation. In the light of contemporary events and the over-seductive and essentially mythical notion of post-productivism.
Contents
Contents: Is this the European model?, Henry Buller; European farming and world markets, Jean-Paul Charvet; Changing passions for food in Europe, Mara Miele; Political mutation and agricultural change in Eastern Europe, Pierre Lenormand; The impact of state deregulation on agriculture and the food chain: lessons from Russia, Larisa Mokrushina; Agricultural development and environmental regulation in Ireland, Hilary Tovey; European processes of environmentalization in agriculture: a view from Spain, Angel Paniagua; Is it the same animal?, Keith Hoggart.
