This book reviews assessments on the environmental effects of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and assesses the contribution of agricultural policy to environmental quality in the EU. It focuses on the role of agricultural policy in reducing harmful effects and/or creating benefits to the physical environment, landscape and nature.

a: Preface, Floor Brouwer and Philip Lowe Part I: Introduction: the environmental reform of agricultural policy 1: The environmental effects of reforming agricultural policies, Wilfrid Legg 2: Integration of environmental objectives into agricultural policy making, Philip Lowe and David Baldock et al. Part II: The environmental performance of the CAP regimes 3: The beef regime, Erling Andersen et al. 4: The sheepmeat and goatmeat regime, Stuart Ashworth and Helen Caraveli 5: The arable crops regime and the use of pesticides, Katherine Falconer and Arie Oskam 6: The arable crops regime and nitrogen pollution control, Floor Brouwer and Marga Hoogeveen 7: The arable crops regime and the countryside implications, Michael Winter 8: The wine regime, Jordi Rosell and Lourdes Viladomiu 9: The olive oil regime, Guy Beaufoy 10: Policies for less favoured areas, Thomas Dax and Petra Hellegers 11: The agri-environmental measures (2078/92), Henry Buller 12: Organic farming, Nic Lampkin, Susanne Padel and Carolyn Foster Part III: Institutional factors in reorientating agriculture 13: Does ‘soft’ regulations matter? Flemming Just and Ingo Heinz 14: National, cultural and institutional factors in CAP and environment, Philip Lowe, Brendan Flynn, Flemming Just, Aida Valadas de Lima, Teresa Patricío and Andrea Povellato 15: Market renumeration for goods and services provided by agriculture and forestry, Maurizio Merlo, Erica Milocco and Paola Virgillietti Part IV: Outlook 16: Economic and environmental impacts of Agenda 2000, Werner Kleinhanss 17: Agenda 2000; a wasted opportunity?, Philip Lowe and Floor Brouwer