Cost assessment of various means of averting environmental damage and groundwater contamination from nitrate seepage

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 307-320

  Haruvy, Nava ^a   Hadas, A ^a   Hadas, Aviva ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cost assessment; Economics; Environmental pollution; leaching; Modelling; Nitrate; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DISCHARGE; CONTAMINATION; COST ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FERTILIZER; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; NITRATE; NITRATE LEACHING; NITRATE SEEPAGE; POLLUTION MITIGATION; SEEPAGE; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0030617187     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3774(96)01268-1     Document Type: Article

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