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"At the beginning of the transition, the economic decline of agriculture partially relaxed the pressure on the wildlife. However, the policy continued to concentrate on regulating the intensity of production rather then creating incentives to produce environmental qualities. The structural adjustment process in agriculture caused the low return (poor) land to be released from production, especially, in protection zones with severe environmental restrictions. Land abandonment resulted in a rapid degradation of wildlife and landscape in places where these natural values were legally protected. The article examines the organization of the provision of landscape and wildlife in the White Carpathians protected landscape area after 1997, when the new agricultural legislation and policy recognized compensations for restrictions and has gradually introduced incentives to cultivate potentially abandoned land. It was found that there was more than one governance structure, and that these were not necessary supporting each other. The investigation concluded that solving the conservation problem is not separable from the rural development problem of the region, and therefore, that there is a need for participation of local community in terms of contributing producers but mainly consumers of high natural values." (author's abstract)

This paper refers to the recent efforts of the JRC/IPTS on impact assessment of rural policies in the EU, particularly using rural typology and quantitative assessment tools for it based on the project of Common Feature of Diverse European Rural Areas: Review of Approaches to Rural Typology (March-September 2007). The paper is structured in three parts as follows. The first one starts with a short overview of rural definition. It will be as a preliminary exercise an overview of rural-urban delimitations and classifications of "rurality". The definitions/delimitations which have been operationally linked to rural development policies will be particularly paid attention. The second part of the paper concentrates on description and review of spatial and performance typologies aimed at providing full comparative descriptions of rural typologies. The third part concentrates on summarizing the results of the project and drawing recommendations for further research will concentrate on rural policy impact analysing