Rural development through governance of multifunctional agricultural land use.  An interdisciplinary collaboration within the RURAGRI ERA-NET (EU-FP7)

MULTAGRI will investigate how governance of agricultural landscapes can promote rural development by harnessing landscape and biological diversity as assets that synergistically promote the production of public goods and sustained intensive agricultural production.

Objectives:

MULTAGRI is a collaborative ERA-NET consortium, coordinated by Lund University  (→ MULTAGRI consortium homepage). Our research group co-ordinates Work Package 5 on the Governance challenges to encourage landscape-scale uptake of appropriate management actions.

Team: Jens Newig, Joern Fischer, Julia Leventon, Tamara Schaal, Sarah Velten

Publications

Leventon, J., Schaal, T., Velten, S., Loos, J., Fischer, J., & Newig, J. (2019). Landscape-scale biodiversity governance: Scenarios for reshaping spaces of governance. Environmental Policy and Governance, 29(3), 170-184.

Leventon, J., Schaal, T., Velten, S., Dänhardt, J., Fischer, J., Abson, D.J., Newig, J. (2017). Collaboration or fragmentation? Biodiversity management through the common agricultural policy. Land Use Policy 64, 1–12. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.02.009

Ekroos J., Leventon J., Fischer J., Newig J., & Smith H. G. (2017). Embedding evidence on conservation interventions within a context of multi‐level governance. Conservation Letters 10(1), 139-145 [free open access content].

Leventon, J., Newig, J., Schaal, T. & S. Velten (2016). Governance approaches to address scale issues in biodiversity management – current situation and ways forward. MultAgri Policy Brief. MULTAGRI. 03/2016.

Velten S., Leventon J., Jager N., & Newig J. (2015). What Is Sustainable Agriculture? A Systematic Review. Sustainability 7, 7833–7865.  doi:10.3390/su7067833. [Free Open Access Content]