Cover -- Title page -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Contents -- The Role of Biodiversity Conservation in Rural Sustainability: An Introduction -- Section 1: The Importance of Dealing with Biodiversity in New Ways -- A New Agricultural Policy for the United States -- Integration of Biodiversity in the Common Agricultural Policy Reform: Implications for Research -- Section 2: What are the Theoretical Contributions to the Conservation of Biodiversity on Rural Landscapes -- Institutional Innovation and Adaptive Management: Learning from Bolivia's Decentralization Experiment -- Building Institutional Capacity for Biodiversity and Rural Sustainability -- Promoting Sustainable Development at a Regional Level as an Economic Driver -- Toward Rural Sustainability in British Columbia: The Role of Biodiversity Conservation and Other Factors -- State of Biodiversity in Some Rural Areas of the Ukraine and Abilities of its Improvement -- Sustainable Rural Development: the Role of Community Involvement and Local Partnerships -- The Hickling Experience -- The Social-Psychological Dimension of Biodiversity Conservation -- Is There Anything to Learn from the Experience in the Maine Lobster Fishery? -- Section 3: How is Biodiversity Being Integrated in Practice into Rural Sustainability Efforts? -- Alternatives to Crisis: an Adaptive Management Model for the Red River Basin of the U.S. and Canada -- The Rhoen Region: A Model for Sustainable Development at the Former Border between East and West Germany -- The Role of Rural Communities in Biodiversity Conservation and the Transition to Sustainability: Practical Experiences from the Pacific Northwest United States -- Some Thoughts on Rural Sustainability in Canada - and Elsewhere.

An Interdisciplinary Approach for Integrating Landscape Management in the Common Agricultural Policy: Application to the Municipality of Mértola, Southern Alentejo, Portugal -- The Tisza River Basin: Slow Change Leads to Sudden Crisis -- Conservation and Restoration of the Danube River Floodplains as a Basis for Rural Sustainable Development -- Belarusian Polesye - A Regional Model for Transition to Sustainable Development -- Section 4: Where Do We Go Next? -- Summary of Conclusions and Recommendations -- An Epilogue: Reflections on Peasantry, Power and Security -- Appendix A: ARW Participants -- Author Index.