Clive Potter, Paul Burnham, Angela Edwards, Ruth Gasson and Bryn Green

`...a commendably lucid and concise commentary on policies to date and a well-argued case for the formation of a `conservation reserve', creating what amounts to an environmentally targeted set-aside...Clive Potter is to be congratulated on a thorough and thought-provoking book.' - Adrienne Wilson, Countryside Commission News`The publication...makes a valuable contribution to the discussion of agricultural policy reform.' - European Review of Agricultural Economics`...this book contains some very useful contextual sections...and some interesting ideas on how a Conservation Reserve might be established. It is an important contribution to the continuing debate on the reorientation of agricultural and land use policy. - Land Use Policy

• Acknowledgements List of Tables and Figures I: Degrees of Freedom II: Adjustment and Restructuring III: Managing Change IV: Learning Fron Another Country V: The Land Surplus VI: A Conservation Reserve VII: The View from the Farm VIII: The New Conservation References Index