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| Schermer, Dr. Markus; Kirchengast, Mag. Christoph. |
| Organic farming in Austria has seen a rapid development as all over Europe. In some alpine regions over 50% of the farms have converted to organic. Thus the idea of forming “Eco-Regions” (“Bioregionen” in German), transforming organic farming values from a farm level to a regional scale, emerged. The paper presents the results of an action research based project to develop a model for the formation of Eco-Regions and to monitor the success in cross-sectoral networking. Besides a number of prerequisites also bottlenecks for the formation become apparent. The paper describes the model and the implementation in two distinct regions. |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: "Organics" in general. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/12099/1/12099.pdf |
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| Schermer, Dr. Markus. |
| 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... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Policy environments and social economy; Europe. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/3341/1/3341.pdf |
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