Freer Trade, Sustainability, and the Primary Production Sector in the Southern EU: Unraveling the Evidence from Greece

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Trade, Sustainability, and the Primary Production Sector: A Southern EU Perspective

      • Joseph N. Lekakis

      Pages 1-16

3. The Agricultural Sector

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. The Organization of Primary Agricultural Production in Greece: Evolution and New Challenges for Re-Orientation

      • Christos M. Zioganas

      Pages 19-32

   3. The Role of Public Infrastructure in the Agricultural Sector

      • Christos Pantzios, Panos Fousekis

      Pages 33-46

   4. Crop Production Under Risk-Uncertainty Conditions

      • George Vaphiades

      Pages 47-59

   5. Farm Household Adjustment to the Increasingly Competitive Conditions in European Agriculture

      • Sophia Efstratoglou

      Pages 60-75

   6. Environmental Sustainability and Price Support under Production Uncertainty

      • Giannis Karagiannis

      Pages 76-86

   7. Supply Response for Soil Erosive and Chemical Intensive Crops

      • Joseph N. Lekakis

      Pages 87-99

   8. Economic Implications of Fertilizer Limitation Policies

      • Evangelos Papanagiotou

      Pages 100-111

   9. Towards a More Competitive and Sustainable Cotton Production

      • Stella Galanopoulou-Sendouca

      Pages 112-127

4. Fisheries and Forests

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. Stochastic Trends in Productivity Analysis: An Application to the Fleet of Bottom Trawlers

      • Panos Fousekis, Christos Pantzios

      Pages 130-142

   3. Exploring the Sustainability of Aquaculture

      • Giannis Karagiannis, Stylianos Katranidis, Elisavet Nitsi, Evangelos Tzouvelekas, Alexandra Vakrou

      Pages 143-158

   4. Trade, Sustainability, and the Forest Sector

      • Nikolaos Stamou

      Pages 159-175

5. The Future

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. Greek Agriculture at the Crossroads: Competition and Sustainability

      • George A. Daoutopoulos, Myrto Pyrovetsi

      Pages 178-188

   3. From Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to Common Agricultural Planning and Management (CAPLAM)

      • Stavros M. Theofanides

      Pages 189-204

6. Back Matter

   Pages 205-213

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Freer Trade, Sustainability, and the Primary Production Sector in the Southern European Union is the first full-scale academic work to cap­ ture the primary production sector policy aspects of trade liberaliza­ tion and sustainability with a detailed focus on a typical southern EU country, Greece. Many efforts were pooled together in making this book. In May 1996 the Department of Economics of the University of Crete organ­ ized an international conference on European Agriculture in the light of the recent WTO agreement and the need for sustainable develop­ ment. The conference was sponsored by the European Commission (DG XII, contract no ENV4-CT-96-6514), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, contract no L320263049), the Hellenic Ministries for Agriculture and for the Environment, and the University of Crete. While summarizing the conclusions of the conference, sev­ eral speakers felt that the issues relating to the Southern EU would de­ serve separate coverage. The conference directors judged that cover­ age of the issues for a single Southern EU country might have an ad­ vantage, regarding detail, over a cross country analysis which would certainly be welcome at a later stage. Responding to this call, the University of Crete generously reallo­ cated all of its infra-structural costs covered by DG XII, ESRC, and the other sponsors above, in the form of a new grant to host a follow-up conference aiming to explore the issues for Greece.

• Agricultural Sector
• European Union (EU)
• Evolution
• Sustainability
• WTO
• forest
• organization
• production

• Department of Economics, University of Crete, Greece

  Joseph N. Lekakis

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