The potential for spatial planning at the landscape level to mitigate the effects of atmospheric ammonia deposition

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 9, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 626-638

  Dragosits, U ^a,b   Theobald, M R ^a   Place, C J ^b   ApSimon, H M ^c   Sutton, M A ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agricultural emissions; Critical loads; Exceedance; Nature protection; Pollution abatement

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITROGEN;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LAND SPREADING; LANDSCAPE; MODEL; PLOWING; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREE; UNITED KINGDOM; VEGETATION;

EID: 33751288971     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2006.07.002     Document Type: Article

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