How do farms economic and technical dynamics contribute to landscape patterns ?
Evolution technique et économique des exploitations agricoles et dynamiques des paysages
Résumé
This chapter examines two interrelated statements that arise in designing suitable policies on multifunctionality: 1 Current policies do not allow farmers to define long term strategies based on clearly locally defined environmental objectives; there is also an inadequateness between missions and means of the governance organizations that intervene to support such objectives 2 There is a need for acquiring knowledge on processes in order to design long-term survey systems useful for the support of landscape adaptive management. This chapter presents a case-study undertaken in Basse-Normandie, France. The aim of this study was to give elements for understanding how economic and technical dynamics of farming systems contribute to landscape patterns, which in their turn, affect ecological processes.