European Union support for Natura 2000 sites under the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020

European External Action Service European Commission - Directorate General for Development and Cooperation - Europeaid Multiannual Indicative Programme (mip) 2014-2020 Nepal

Connectivity of Natura 2000 Forest Sites

The newly adopted Green Infrastructure Strategy is a key step in implementing targets of the European Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 (EBS). This study responds to policy needs for target 2 on ecosystems conditions and services, target 1 on implementing and enhancing coherence of the Natura 2000 network and sub-target 3b on integrating environmental concerns in forest management. Protected areas ...

The Common Agricultural Policy 2014–2020: scenarios for the European agricultural and rural systems

The reform of Common Agricultural Policy for 2014–2020 aims at promoting greater competitiveness, efficient use of public goods, food security, preservation of the environment and specific action against climate change, social and territorial equilibrium, and a more inclusive rural development. The economic crisis of the last years, the globalization, the increasing pressure on natural resource...

Rural Development Indicators and Diversity in the European Union

This paper will discuss the main findings and recommendations of a report for Eurostat on rural development indicators (Bryden, Copus and MacLeod, 2002). Findings of recent research on the Dynamics of Rural Areas (DORA) in the EU will also be taken into consideration. The main question in the Eurostat work was: in the light of recent changes in rural policies what new social and economic indica...

Connectivity of Natura 2000 forest sites in Europe

Background/Purpose: In the context of the European Biodiversity policy, the Green Infrastructure Strategy is one supporting tool to mitigate fragmentation, inter-alia to increase the spatial and functional connectivity between protected and unprotected areas. The Joint Research Centre has developed an integrated model to provide a macro-scale set of indices to evaluate the connectivity of the N...