creators_name: van Elsen, Thomas
editors_name: Korn, H.
editors_name: Schliep, R.
editors_name: Epple, C.
type: bookchapter
datestamp: 2006-06-20
lastmod: 2009-08-20 14:32:50
metadata_visibility: show
title: Nature Conservation Advisory Service for Farmers - A New Approach to Integrate Nature Conservation on Farm Level
ispublished: unpub
subjects: 9landscape
subjects: 7biodiversity
full_text_status: public
keywords: organic agriculture, cultural landscape, natural landscape, Biodiversity Conservation, organic farming, 
abstract: From a historical point of view, it is obvious that agriculture is responsible for building the cultural landscapes of Europe. In a process of hundreds of years, the natural landscapes had been replaced by cultural ones. Of course, agriculture led to extinction of at least some mammal species, but replacing the forests by settlements with pastures, meadows, orchards, arable fields and structural elements increased the number of plant and animal species in the landscape. Several species were introduced from other continents.
date: 2005
date_type: published
publication: Report on the International Workshop "Opportunities of EU Agriculture Policy Instruments for Biodiversity Conservation and Integrated Rural Development in Protected Areas of the New Member States"
publisher: BfN-Skripten 153, Bonn
pagerange: 65-69
refereed: never
citation: van Elsen, Thomas (2005) Nature Conservation Advisory Service for Farmers - A New Approach to Integrate Nature Conservation on Farm Level. In: Korn, H.; Schliep, R. and Epple, C. (Eds.) Report on the International Workshop "Opportunities of EU Agriculture Policy Instruments for Biodiversity Conservation and Integrated Rural Development in Protected Areas of the New Member States", BfN-Skripten 153, Bonn, pp. 65-69. [ Unpublished, ]
document_url: http://orgprints.org/8619/1/vanElsen-2005-AdvisoryService_Vilm.pdf