Assesses the regional territorial impact of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and Rural Development Policy (RDP), asking the question how far these are compatible with objectives of territorial cohesion across the enlarged European Union. This work concludes with proposals for policy reform.
Introduction; The Common Agricultural Policy; EU Structural Policies and the ESDP; The Territorial Distribution of CAP / RDP Support; Adjustments and Impacts of the CAP / RDP; The CAP / RDP Reforms in the EU-15 and the NMSS; The CAP / RDP in the Context of EU Spatial Policy; Ways Forward in Rural Development; Conclusions and Policy Proposals
Edited by M Shucksmith, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; K Thomson, University of Aberdeen, UK; D Roberts, University of Aberdeen, UK