All Outputs (5)

Agricultural policy (2008)
Book Chapter
Greer, A. (2008). Agricultural policy. In M. Woods (Ed.), New Labour’s Countryside: Rural Policy in Britain since 1997 (149-165). Bristol: The Policy Press

The agricultural policy of the New Labour governments has been central in their approach to governing the countryside. This is highlighted in the rhetoric of multifunctional agriculture, which stresses the central contribution that farmers make to th... Read More about Agricultural policy.

Agricultural policy in Europe (2005)
Book
Greer, A. (2005). Agricultural policy in Europe. Manchester: Manchester University Press

Farm interest groups in Ireland: Adaptation, partnership and resilience (2005)
Book Chapter
Greer, A. (2005). Farm interest groups in Ireland: Adaptation, partnership and resilience. In D. Halpin (Ed.), Surviving Global Change? Agricultural Interest Groups in Comparative Perspective (51-70). Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate

Countryside Issues: A Creeping Crisis (2003)
Journal Article
Greer, A. (2003). Countryside Issues: A Creeping Crisis. Parliamentary Affairs, 56(3), 523-542+ii+v. https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/gsg104

This article explores the idea of countryside crisis in Britain. Countryside crisis is contrasted with more conventional single-issue crises because of its multi-stranded and complex character. Its main components are the contemporary problems of the... Read More about Countryside Issues: A Creeping Crisis.

Policy networks and policy change in organic agriculture: A comparative analysis of the UK and Ireland (2002)
Journal Article
Greer, A. (2002). Policy networks and policy change in organic agriculture: A comparative analysis of the UK and Ireland. Public Administration, 80(3), 453-474. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9299.00313

This paper takes a comparfative case-study approach, located within the literature on policy networks, to organic agriculture policy in the United Kingdom and Ireland since the late 1980s. An examination of policy development for the organic sector f... Read More about Policy networks and policy change in organic agriculture: A comparative analysis of the UK and Ireland.