Agriculture and Biodiversity
Subtitle: Developing Indicators for Policy Analysis
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9789264199217
Subjects: Agriculture and Food; Ecology; Euthenics; Nature and nurture; Adaptation (Biology)
Description: This book is a collection of papers from the OECD meeting on Agri-biodiversity Indicators held jointly with the EU and international organisations in November 2001, in Zurich-Rechkenhols, Switzerland. A key outcome was to establish a common agri-biodiversity framework that helps understand the complexity of agri-biodiversity linkages. Papers cover the following topics; agricultural genetic resources, wild species, ecosytems, linking habitats to species and an overview of agri-biodiversity indicators. It includes a set of recommendations to OECD with respect to agri-biodiversity.
Table of contents: title: Preamble; title: Summary and Recommendations; title: OECD Agri-Biodiversity Indicators: Background Paper by Kevin Parris; title: Biological Diversity of Livestock and Crops: Useful Classification and Appropriate Agri-Environmental Indicators by Frank Wetterich; title: Developing Biodiversity Indicators for Livestock in Greece by A. Georgoudis, A. Baltas, E. Danou, K. Fragos, Ch. Tsafaras, and Ch Ligda; title: Plant Genetic Resources and Agri-Biodiversity in the Czech Republic by Ladislav Dotlacil, Zdenek Stehno, Anna Michalova and Iva Faberova; title: Wild Flora and Fauna in Irish Agro-Ecosystems: a Practical Perspective on Indicator Selection by Jane Feehan; title: An Agricultural Habitat Indicator for Wildlife in Korea by Jin-Han Kim, Byung HO Yoo, Changman won, Jin-Young Park and Jeong-Yeon Yi; title: Using Bird Data to Develop Biodiversity Indicators for Agriculture by Melanie Heath and Matthew Rayment; title: Overview of Biodiversity Indicators Related to Agriculture in Belgium by Visi Farcia Cidad, Geert De Blust, Jean-Francois Maljean, Alain Peeters; title: Eco-Fauna-Database: A Tool for Both Selecting Indicator Species for Land Use and Estimating Impacts of Land Use on Animal Species by Thomas Walter and Karin Schneider; title: Estimating Wildlife Habitat Trends on Agricultural Ecosystems in the United States by Stephen Brady and Curtis H. Flather; title: Monitoring Habitat Change in Japanese Agricultural Systems by David S. Sprague; title: National and Regional Level Farmland Biodiversity Indicators in Finland by Mikko Kuussaari and Janne Heliola; title: Developing Habitat Accounts: An Application of the United Kingdom Countryside Surveys by Andrew Stott; title: Agri-Biodiversity Indicators: A View from the Unilever Sustainable Agricultural Initiative by Gail Smith and David Pendlington; title: Indicators of Agri-Biodiversity - Australia's Experience by James Walcott, Jean Chesson. and Peter O'Brien; title: Using Biological and Land Use Information to Develop Indicatos of Habitat Availability on Farmland by Terence McRae and Ted Weins; title: Assessing Biodiversity in the United States Agricultural Ecosystems by MIchael J. Mac; title: The State of Agro-Biodiversity in the Netherlands: Integrating Habitat and Species Indicators by Ben ten Brink; title: Annex: Complete List of Documents and Information Provided at the Meeting