Monitoring framework for assessing changes of the Estonian rural landscape in adopting European agricultural policies

Roose Antti and Sepp Kalev
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Roose Antti: Department of Geography, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Tartu, Vanemuise 46, 51014 Tartu, Estonia
Sepp Kalev: Department of Landscape Management and Nature Conservation, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5, 51014 Tartu, Estonia

European Countryside, 2010, vol. 2, issue 1, 42-59

Abstract: The article describes the methodology of landscape and biodiversity monitoring in Estonia since 2004 for complying with European Union agricultural and environmental policies. The paper includes an overview of the introduction of the agri-environment programme; specifies how landscape features in agricultural and semi-natural areas are monitored, and to which extent agricultural impacts on environment are buffered by support measures. Designing monitoring networks to be spatially more efficient regarding changes in rural landscapes and assessing agricultural impacts is one of the keys to upgrading monitoring methods and decision-support systems.

Keywords: Agriculture; agri-environment programme; biodiversity; Common Agricultural Policy (CAP); Estonia; landscape monitoring; European Union (EU) support schemes; Agriculture; agri-environment programme; biodiversity; Common Agricultural Policy (CAP); Estonia; landscape monitoring; European Union (EU) support schemes; Põllumajandus; põllumajanduse keskkonnaprogramm; bioloogiline mitmekesisus; Ühtne Põllumajanduspoliitika; Eesti; maastikuseire; Euroopa Liidu toetusskeemid (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.2478/v10091-010-0004-6

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