This chapter shows that the main potential role of the public sector in sustainable tourism is largely negative in terms of regulation and planning controls. However, it is clear that the public sector can play a positive, pro-active role too. There is also a trend towards supra-governmental...

The progress in economic transformation and integration with the EU undertaken during the decade of the 1990s by the 10 countries in Central and Eastern Europe that have applied for EU membership is reviewed. The analysis focuses on three main issues: the justification for the categorization of the ...

This chapter focuses on market and budgetary effects of different variants of the EU's Agenda 2000 for the five Central and Eastern European Countries in the first wave of accession negotiations, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia. The development of CEEC agricultural protection...

The implications of introducing the CAP in the Central and Eastern European Countries are discussed. Four scenarios are discussed: (1) continuation of national policies in CEECs without accession to the EU; (2) adoption of the acquis and preparation for EU membership, with an overall increase in...

The results of an analysis of agricultural price and trade policies in Central and Eastern European countries since economic and political liberalization are summarized. The analysis includes both the level and mechanism of government intervention policy in the agrofood complex and investigates the ...

A set of issues which may be particularly relevant in the context of preparing for and implementing the accession of the CEECs to the EU in the agricultural sector are described. These issues include: reforms and CEEC agricultural transition; price and trade policies; structural change and...

This introductory chapter to this book on seed carbohydrates of grain legumes provides background information on the following subjects: the grain legumes; grain legume production; grain legume composition; and grain legume carbohydrates. A list is provided on the common grain legumes grown in the...

This chapter focuses on (1) what motivated domestic government intervention, in the form of regulations, in agricultural biotechnology market transactions; (2) how domestic governments regulate market transactions; and (3) what the impact of domestic regulations on the development and...

A discussion on how the bovine spongiform encephalitis outbreak in the UK and some parts of Europe has galvanized the policy of the European Union and its individual countries regarding food safety.

A definition for sustainable tourism is sought. Next, a discussion is presented of how tourism and the environment may develop in Europe, how tourist organizations should react, and the benefits that may from tourism ecolabels are described. The following issues are addressed: tourism within the...