Europe has introduced a number of policies designed to conserve its landscape and wildlife. The papers collected here carefully examine these policies, many of which have been in effect for more than a decade. The overall perspective is an economic one, with several chapters reviewing analytical methods, economic valuation of the benefits of agricultural landscapes and the costs and benefits of wildlife conservation. These are set in the context of the Common Agricultural Policy and environmental policies in the European Union. The book represents important reading for agricultural and environmental economists, as well as those concerned with ecology and conservation. The papers revised here were originally delivered at a workshop at the University of Hohenheim in 1996, part of a series of EU Concerted Action workshops looking at policy measures to control environmental impacts from agriculture.

Policy perspectives; analytical positions; economic valuation of benefits of wildlife conservation; how should we organize conservation by farmers? spatial modelling approach; integrating the CAP.