In:
Ambio, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 48, No. 11 ( 2019-11), p. 1264-1277
Abstract:
In this study, quantitative models of the agricultural sector and nutrient transport and cycling are used to analyse the impacts in the Baltic Sea of replacing the current Greening measures of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy with a package of investments in manure handling. The investments aim at improving nutrient utilization and reducing nitrogen leaching, based on the assumption that lagging farms and regions can catch up with observed good practice. Our results indicate that such investments could reduce nitrogen surpluses in agriculture by 18% and nitrogen concentrations in the Baltic Sea by 1 to 9% depending on the basin. The Greening measures, in contrast, are found to actually increase nitrogen leaching.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0044-7447
,
1654-7209
DOI:
10.1007/s13280-019-01251-5
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Publication Date:
2019
detail.hit.zdb_id:
120759-3
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2040524-8
SSG:
23
SSG:
12
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