IDARI Workshop, Tartu, June 2004 Work Package 1: Rural and Environmental Sustainability WP 1 (NUIG) Presentation of research activities (Tuesday 1 st June – 10.00) TvR The IDARI project is financed under the FP5 Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources, Key Action 5

WP 1. Thematic Fields 1Biological Diversity & Environmental Sustainability 2Rural Entrepreneurship 3Social Capital 4Population and Migration The IDARI project is financed under the FP5 Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources, Key Action 5

1. On farm Crop Diversity Land Fragmentation and Crop Diversity –Land Reform –Research group: EST, LT, BG, NUIG –Research group leader: SDF –Research question: to evaluate the effects of land fragmentation on genetic crop diversity –Pilot surveys –Country study surveys –Publications (4 WP) Council regulation No 870/2004 establishing a community programme on conservation, characterisation, collection and utilisation of genetic resources in agriculture and repealing regulation (EC) No 1467/94 The IDARI project is financed under the FP5 Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources, Key Action 5

1. Common Property Resources Commonage –CPR: two century old institution –Research question: does the level of cooperation within the commonage affect the grazing level? –Pilot study, main survey (282) –Probit model to estimate the probability of the event cooperation –Publications: American Association of Agricultural Economists The IDARI project is financed under the FP5 Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources, Key Action 5

1. Organic Farming (DT) Modelling the transition to organic agriculture in Estonia –Research group: EE, NUIG –Research group leader: TvR –Doctoral Student: Ahto Oja –Research question: to identify formal and informal institutional factors which influence the adoption of organic farming –Pilot surveys, country survey –Publications (2 WP) Council Regulation (EEC) NO 2091/91 on organic production of agricultural products and foodstuffs. The IDARI project is financed under the FP5 Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources, Key Action 5

1. Carbon Taxes Redistributive Impact of Carbon Taxes –Research group: EST, NUIG –Research group leader: CD –Doctoral student: Silja Lupsik –Research question: to evaluate the effectiveness of environmental taxation and alternative policies on their primary objective of pollution reduction. –Household Budget Survey & Microsimulation modelling –Publications The IPPC directive – integrated pollution and prevention control (96/61 EC). ( Council regulation N 761/2001. The IDARI project is financed under the FP5 Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources, Key Action 5

2. Rural Entrepreneurship Factors that influence success of rural SMEs in Poland –Research group: NUIG, PL –Research group leader: MC –Doctoral student (Wadim Strielkowski) –Research question: to identify factors that influence the success of Polish rural SMEs –Pilot survey, main survey –Publications –Paper on measuring elasticities of labour supply for Polish rural entrepreneurs. Olsztyn, Poland (conference, May 2005), will be published in September Multi-annual programme for enterprise and entrepreneurship – council decision (2000/819/EC) for SMEs (2001 – 2005) The IDARI project is financed under the FP5 Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources, Key Action 5

3. Social Capital & Partnerships Partnerships and Social Capital - Research group: LT, LAT, NUIG - Research group leader: TvR - Research question: does the emergence of partnerships through conflict enhance cooperation between multi - stakeholder interest groups in the management of natural resources. - Pilot survey, main survey - Publications The IDARI project is financed under the FP5 Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources, Key Action 5

Partnerships as Communities of Practice for Rural Devt. in Latvia –Research group leader: MC –Doctoral student: Liga Paula –Research question: what is the role of learning as social participation in building social capital in rural partnerships? –Surveys Liga Paula (2004) Learning in doing: participation of rural communities for a common future. Conference proceedings of the international conference “Negotiating futures – states, societies and the world”, Riga, November 11-14, 2004 The IDARI project is financed under the FP5 Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources, Key Action 5 3. Social Capital & Partnerships (DT)

Governance & Participative Community Devt. in Lithuania –Research group leader: Chris Curtin –Doctoral student Áine Macken Walsh –Research question: The local determinants effecting the operation of partnership and participative community development in the context of the post-socialist countryside. –Surveys The IDARI project is financed under the FP5 Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources, Key Action 5 3. Social Capital & Partnerships (DT)

4. Migration Rural Population and Migration - Research group: (PL, CR, NUIG) - Research group leader: CD - Research topic: Factors influencing inter- regional and inter-national migration - Impact of EU accession - Secondary data: EUROSTAT REGIO database - Publications: paper on migrations in Czech Republic and Ireland: written with Cathal O’Donoghue (IDARI WP) The IDARI project is financed under the FP5 Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources, Key Action 5

3. Social Capital Partnerships and social Networks - Partnerships (Pilot) - Partnership identification, - Country study surveys –Publications: Murray, TvR, ED The IDARI project is financed under the FP5 Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources, Key Action 5