1. IDARI Workshop, Tartu, June 2004 Work Package 1: Rural and Environmental Sustainability WP 1 (NUIG) Presentation of research activities (Tuesday 1 st June 09.20 – 10.00) TvR The IDARI project is financed under the FP5 Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources, Key Action 5

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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

6. 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

7. 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, 19-20 May 2005), will be published in September 2005. 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

8. 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

9. 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)

10. 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)

11. 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

12. 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