FYI....UK studies on food miles, nitrate schemes in Europe and climate change agreements UK

From: Jenny Broome (jcbroome@ucdavis.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 27 2006 - 05:39:11 PDT


Greetings, a few environmental/sustainable policy studies I have come
across recently in the UK on topics that might be of interest:

1. The Validity of Food Miles as an Indicator of Sustainable Development,
http://statistics.defra.gov.uk/esg/reports/foodmiles/final.pdf

2. Methods and Measures to Minimize Defuse Pollution of Water From
Agriculture,
http://www.defra.gov.uk/farm/environment/water/csf/reports/pdf/dwpa05.pdf

3. Climate change agreements including levy,
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/ccl/intro.htm

Janet C. "Jenny" Broome, Ph.D.
University of California
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SAREP)

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