This paper, published in December 2009, analyses the available evidence on the range of environmental and man-made landscape services that land managers - farmers and foresters) provide. It does not only deal with the actual services delivered, but reviews work regarding the scale of the non-market services which come from our multifunctional land management and assesses the various ways to bring about the delivery of these services.
With a the prospect of the ongoing EU CAP and Budget discussions, the RISE Task Force Report, tries to give several ways and recommendations to ensure that policy measures for delivery of these services are developed. It argues that if the demand for public goods can be effectively created, then private operators will step up to supply.
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