Provides comprehensive data and analysis on the environmental performance of agriculture in OECD countries since 1990, covering soil, water, air and biodiversity and looking at recent policy developments in all 34 countries.

This book outlines an analytical framework to further the analysis of agri-environmental linkages and sustainable agriculture. It describes the main environmental concepts in agriculture of relevance to OECD policy-makers and the indicators that need to be calculated.

This book is the first comprehensive study to review and take stock in OECD countries of progress in developing indicators to measure the environmental performance of agriculture.

This book examines two key aspects of developing environmental indicators for agriculture: identification and design of suitable indicators and how governments might use them for policy purposes.

Indicators in the field of biodiversity and landscape; Indicators in the field of environmental pollution; Indicators in the field of policy analysis.

What are the impacts, both harmful and beneficial, of agriculture on the environment? And how do different policy measures affect the environment? This study outlines an analytical framework to further the analysis of agri-environmental linkages and sustainable agriculture.

Provides comprehensive data and analysis on the environmental performance of agriculture in OECD countries since 1990, covering soil, water, air and biodiversity and looking at recent policy developments in all 30 countries.

Recoge: 1. Geographical use of stadistical data - 2. Dealing with the modifiable areal unit problem - 3. Comparison of CORINE land cover data with IACS data in Belgium and Italy and with land use is Slovenia - 4. Reassignment of the Farm Structure Survey's data - 6. Using CORINE land cover to map population density - 7. Agricultural statistics spatialisation by means of CORINE land cover to model nutrient surpluses - 8. Comparing CORINE land cover with a more detailed database in Arezzo (Italy) - 9. Conclusions