Increasing pressure on space demands careful assessment between competing functions in a planning process. Especially, in metropolitan landscapes, space is in short supply and hence expensive. Housing, industrial sites and office parks, and infrastructure are strong drivers of landscape change,...

This paper analyses the impact of Rural Development Program (RDP) measures focusing on tourism have on the growth of tourism and on the economy in rural areas. We first explored tourism in NUT2 regions in the EU with a spatial data analyses and then we applied spatial econometric analyses on...

This paper analyses the impact of agri-environmental measures (AEM), the most important measure of the EU Rural Development Program (RDP) measures. Of the total public RDP budget, almost a quarter is allocated to this measure (35 billion euro including EU and national contribution). The measure...

In this presentation, we will analyse whether entrepreneurial benefits depend on the landscape composition of the Dutch Ecological Main Structure (EMS) zones. The general objective of this research is to analyze economic benefits of the EMS for recreational firms. As far as we know, this...

The Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires member states to implement abatement measures to ensure a good ecological and chemical status of all surface and ground waters by 2015. One of the main challenges in the implementation of the WFD is the selection of cost-effective programs of measures...