Katrin Prager

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on insights from participatory agri-environmental policy making, spatial planning and collaborative approaches to environmental management, and propose steps for planning, design and implementation of agrienvironmental payment schemes that will encourage collaboration and co-ordinated actions at a landscape scale.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed and summarized findings of existing studies on the role of socio-economic factors that influence farmer participation in soil conservation efforts, i.e., their adoption of conservation practices, with a particular focus on the European situation.

TL;DR: Two cases involving stakeholder participation in agri-environmental development and policy making, targeted at different policy-making levels are presented, suggesting that the approaches can complement one another and could also be applied to rural policy making.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the recent literature on agri-environmental collaboration in Europe and compiles benefits, limitations and ways to encourage collaboration is presented, with a focus on the benefits of increasing social capital and the sustainable management of the wider landscape.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider how agri-environment schemes under the Common Agricultural Policy could be adapted to derive a higher return of ecosystem services, by spatially targeting the services most valued by society and providing incentives for cross-boundary management of certain ecosystem services at catchment or wider spatial scales.