@inproceedings{orgprints3341,
          editor = {J He\ss and G Rahmann},
           title = {?\"Okologische Modernisierung`` durch Biologischen Landbau in \"Osterreich?},
          author = {Dr. Markus Schermer},
       publisher = {kassel university press GmbH, Kassel},
            year = {2005},
         journal = {Ende der Nische, Beitr\"age zur 8. Wissenschaftstagung \"Okologischer Landbau},
        keywords = {Entwicklung ?kolandbau, Agrarpolitik },
             url = {http://orgprints.org/3341/},
        abstract = {Organic farming is finding increasingly widespread acceptance. The paper tries to examine whether the growth of organic farming is also connected with a transformation of economy and society under the heading of ?ecological modernisation?. We use the example of Austria which is the EU-country with the highest percentage of organic farm area. The results of a survey undertaken in the frame of the EU-Project ?Further Development of Organic Farming Policy in Europe, with Particular Emphasis on EU Enlargement?, EU-CEE-OFP are interpreted along the grid of ecological modernisation (GIBBS, 2000). The analysis suggests that the impact of organic farming was so far moderate and only towards a weak form. However there is a certain future potential in the combination of organic with regional development. }
}