Modelling the trade-offs between farm income and the reduction of erosion and nitrate pollution

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 94, Issue 1-4, 2000, Pages 91-103

  Mimouni, M ^a   Zekri, S ^b   Flichman, G ^a  

^a Inst Agronom Mediterraneen M   (France)

^b University of Carthage Tunisia   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Environmental impacts; Erosion; Multi objective programming; Nitrate pollution; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034398139     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018941805656     Document Type: Article

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