Measuring societal awareness of the rural agrarian landscape: indicators and scale issues

摘要: The work presented in this report is part of the effort to define landscape state and diversity indicator the frame COM (2006) 508 “Development agri-environmental indicators for monitoring integration of environmental concerns into common agricultural policy”. Communication classifies indicators according their level development, which, “in need substantial improvements order become fully operational”. For reason a full re-definition has been carried out, following initial proposal frame IRENA operation (“Indicator Reporting on the Integration Environmental Concerns Agricultural Policy”). new state and structured three components: first degree naturalness, the second structure, third societal appreciation rural landscape. While two components rely on strong bulk existing literature, development methodology made evident the further analysis component, which based newly proposed top-down approach. This presents an in-depth such component indicator, include social dimension large scale assessment.