Countryside in Trust: Land Management by Conservation, Recreation and Amenity Organisations

Enormous areas of land are now owned collectively by voluntary trusts and their management objectives are primarily environmental or heritage conservation, protection of amenity or recreation. The book describes and analyzes the trusts' functioning, problems and objectives in a broad framework of national and EC policy. Divided into three parts, the first section describes the economic and social background to countryside trust and rural land management in Britain and Europe, the second section provides detailed studies of major and minor trusts, and the third section examines land management problems and their future potential, including financial and policy issues.