Nitrate pollution control under soil heterogeneity

Land Use Policy

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 521-532

  Martínez, Yolanda ^a   Albiac, José ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y TECNOLOGÍA AGROALIMENTARIA DE ARAGÓN CITA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dynamic optimization; Efficiency of policy measures by soil type.; Nitrate pollution abatement; Soil heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ABATEMENT COST; NITRATE; OPTIMIZATION; POLLUTION CONTROL; SOIL POLLUTION;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33745661955     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2005.05.002     Document Type: Article

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