caa a22 4500 467898316 CHVBK 20180406152810.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10708-006-9035-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10708-006-9035-y Afforestation of European landscapes: How do different farmer types respond to EU agri-environmental schemes? [Elektronische Daten] [Søren Præstholm, Anette Reenberg, Søren Kristensen] This paper investigates how different types of farmers manage the landscape with primary emphasis on farmland afforestation, planned landscape changes, and the extent to which EU agri-environmental schemes take farm type specific characteristics into account in information strategies. The empirical data concern landscape practices of more than 2,000 landowners in 16 European areas in eight countries who were surveyed using quantitative questionnaires. Supplementary in-depth interviews were conducted for two case areas in Denmark to further investigate the role of the policy information environment. The analysis is based on a categorization of the farmers into hobby, part-time, full-time and retired farmers. This study shows that hobby farmers constitute a high proportion of landowners and manage a large part of the rural landscape. At the same time, hobby farmers are relatively more interested in landscape changes and differ from other landowners by considering farmland afforestation more often than full-time landowners, for example. Yet, 40% of the hobby farmers who are considering farmland afforestation are not familiar with the agri-environmental scheme for farmland afforestation. One reason may be their low membership rate in traditional information networks such as farmers' or foresters' associations, as revealed by the in-depth analysis of the cases in Denmark. Thus, it is proposed that policy impact may be improved if farmer type specific differences are explicitly taken into account in the scheme logistics for EU agri-environmental schemes. Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2006 Agri-environmental scheme nationallicence Afforestation nationallicence Hobby farmer nationallicence Landscape change nationallicence Part-time farmer nationallicence Præstholm Søren Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen, Oester Voldgade 10, 1350, Copenhagen, Denmark aut Reenberg Anette Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen, Oester Voldgade 10, 1350, Copenhagen, Denmark aut Kristensen Søren Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen, Oester Voldgade 10, 1350, Copenhagen, Denmark aut GeoJournal Springer Netherlands 67/1(2006-09-01), 71-84 0343-2521 67:1<71 2006 67 10708 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-9035-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-9035-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Præstholm Søren Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen, Oester Voldgade 10, 1350, Copenhagen, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Reenberg Anette Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen, Oester Voldgade 10, 1350, Copenhagen, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kristensen Søren Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen, Oester Voldgade 10, 1350, Copenhagen, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- GeoJournal Springer Netherlands 67/1(2006-09-01), 71-84 0343-2521 67:1<71 2006 67 10708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer