This book presents a cameo of private rural estates throughout Europe and in particular their role in conserving Europe's natural and cultural heritage. An extensively researched and lavishly produced book.
Carlos Otero Knihy
"This book focuses on rural businesses for biodiversity. This recent publication depicts sixty-one estates, active in various sectors such as agriculture, forestry, tourism, food supply chain and extractive industry, but all of them involved in biodiversity conservation. These businesses stand as model representatives of new solution and innovative techniques favourable to biodiversity. Land managers explain on more than 750 pages how they decided to move towards a perfect balance between modern business and biodiversity protection. Each chapter is accompanied by maps, graphics, pictures, historical overview, list of species and habitats, geographical data and detailed explanation of various techniques of sustainable biodiversity management such as field margins, sustainable harvest, habitat protection, creation of areas for nesting and bird surveys."--Publisher.
