§16§§This edited volume documents the current nature conservation status of arable habitats in Europe. Arable farming systems have evolved in the European landscape over more than ten thousand years and now occupy nearly 30% of the European land area. §16§nd pollinators of arable habitats;〓 §16§ a world where value is increasingly expressed in terms of material profit. §02§§Clive Hurford is a botanist who has worked in the field of nature conservation since the late 1970s, initially as an ornithologist with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and then as a botanical surveyor for the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW). Since 1992 he has focused primarily on habitat monitoring and led a field team to demonstrate the links between conservation management and monitoring on Natura 2000 sites for an EU/CCW Life Project. More recently he was 'Conservation Monitoring Advisor for International Sites' for CCW and Natural Resources Wales. He is the lead editor / author of two edited volumes on monitoring nature conservation and regularly coordinates international workshops on the subject. He has a long-standing interest in habitats with a cultural history, especially arable habitats. After 27 years working for the Welsh conservation agencies, he is now the founder and director of Serapias; an ecological monitoring consultancy.§
