Investeren in landschapskwaliteit; de effectiviteit van gesubsidieerd landschapsbeheer in het agrarisch cultuurlandschap van Nederland

Abstract

This research focusus on the nature, background and efficiency of national and European subsidies for the management of landscape features through agri-environment schemes in the Netherlands from 2000. For this purpose, literature reviews, expert interviews, policy analysis, a subsidy analysis and a spatial GIS-analysis were used. With these research methods it is studied how governments focus on the preservation of landscape values, what landscape management has been performed and how this reflects on the landscape quality of the agricultural area in the Netherlands. It can be concluded that the subsidies for the management of landscape features through agri-environment schemes in the Netherlands since 2000 have had little effect on the landscape quality of the agricultural area in the Netherlands.