Economic assessment of the negative impacts of ozone on crop yields and forest production. A case study of the estate Östads Säteri in southwestern Sweden

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Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 32-40

  Karlsson, Per Erik ^a   Pleijel, Håkan ^b   Belhaj, Mohammed ^a   Danielsson, Helena ^a   Dahlin, Bo ^c,d   Andersson, Mikael ^c,d   Hansson, Max ^e   Munthe, John ^a   Grennfelt, Peringe ^a,b  

^a IVL SWEDISH ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d S Swedish Forest Research Centre   (Sweden)

^e KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROP YIELD; ECONOMIC IMPACT; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; OZONE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 13844302028     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-34.1.32     Document Type: Article

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52. The values for forest production and economic revenues for the estate Östad säteri, that are presented in this study, are the outcome of modelling activities and they are not necessarily compatible at an absolute level with the real production and economic revenues for the Östad Estate.
53. This research was funded by the ASTA programme, financed by the MISTRA foundation. We thank Patrik Alströmmer at the estate Östads Säteri for valuable discussions during the preparations of this article.