[...]... the quantum shift toward sustainability is recognizing and putting at risk conventional ways of thinking and acting Social learning is a "fundamentally messy, contingent, and ambiguous intermingling of knowledge, power, interests, and change in the workings of the world" [50] 7 Working Landscapes - Integrating Biodiversity and Rural Sustainability The motivation to reform the CAP is "to ensure that agriculture... a mutual interest in finding ways of maintaining and restoring biodiversity as part of the designing and deciding upon new economic and security structures The western countries must find ways of reducing their 'ecological footprint', which will require a major restructuring of their production and consumption patterns This means restraint in resource use and the exercise of power by the NATO countries... practice of integrating science, policy, leadership and institutional arrangements management for biodiversity conservation, and the role of conservation in the transition to rural sustainability; 2 The challenges for biodiversity conservation in rural areas in Europe and North America as EU enlargement comes to be a reality; 3 Comparing and contrasting case study applications in biodiversity conservation. .. put into effect to ensure that the mix of interested stakeholders is at least better off as a result [49] Sustainability appraisal techniques seek to identify operational criteria and indicators, which can be linked to incentives and monitoring systems The European Environmental Agency is seeking to move in this direction by linking monitoring and reporting systems directly to assessing progress of. .. requires adaptive work, involving changes in values, beliefs or behavior, learning to reconcile conflicts in values and understanding Navigating the transition to sustainability means coping with persistent periods of disequilibria It will be tempting to return to the current repertoire tools for problem solving, but people will increasingly turn to learning new ways Asking the right questions may... interest was paid to in understanding the contribution of biodiversity conservation to rural development and vice-versa, and learning from the experiences — both successes and failures - of other approaches in order to generate proposals for how and by whom to accelerate the transition to rural sustainability Over 30 papers were prepared for NATO ARW covering four themes: 1 Recent developments in theory... reconciling objectives and resolving these issues? European Union (EU) enlargement offers a historic and last best opportunity for linking biodiversity conservation to rural development as a basis for setting a new agenda for research, policy and action in the North Such an agenda will be aimed at achieving real progress on sustainability The intent in organizing the NATO ARW was to bring together a... rural sustainability will require addressing a range of issues or research challenges not discussed in this paper but which will need also to be considered to varying degrees Some of these issues are briefly outlined below Many of them are linked to the broader context of globalization Participants contributing to the NATO ARW raised a number of other issues: 1 Feeding the world The growth of the world's... is in a position to collect all the learnings, summarize them and offer use lessons learned to offer assistance Transitioning toward sustainability means decentralizing decision making to deal with the accelerating speed, scale and complexity of the institutional environment It means breaking up the decisional logjams and putting decisions "where they belong." Problems are solved at levels they define... initiatives, the bulk of spending is still primarily oriented towards commodity production price supports Consequently, U.S agricultural exports will continue to have a major impact on the competitiveness of both the EU and the ACs Furthermore, the U.S has a strong hand in guiding and setting agendas of the WTO For this reason, the U.S will remain a major factor affecting sustainability of rural areas . 338 Author Index 342 The Role of Biodiversity Conservation in the Transition to Rural Sustainability S. Light (Ed.) IOS Press, 2004 The Role of Biodiversity . alt="" THE ROLE OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN THE TRANSITION TO RURAL SUSTAINABILITY NATO Science Series A series presenting the results of scientific