Nutrient emission reduction scenarios in the North Sea: An abatement cost and ecosystem integrity analysis

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 776-792

  Nunneri, Corinna ^a   Windhorst, Wilhelm ^a   Kerry Turner, R ^a   Lenhart, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abatement costs; Ecological risk; Eutrophication; Precautionary approach; River catchment coastal zone interaction

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEMS; EUTROPHICATION; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

ABATEMENT COSTS; ECOLOGICAL RISK; INTEGRITY ANALYSIS; NUTRIENT EMISSION REDUCTION; PRECAUTIONARY APPROACH; RIVER CATCHMENT/COASTAL ZONE INTERACTION;

NUTRIENTS;

COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC INSTRUMENT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; EUTROPHICATION; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION POLICY; PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE; RISK ASSESSMENT; VALUATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CENTRAL EUROPE; ELBE RIVER; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUMBER RIVER; NORTH SEA; RHINE RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

HELIETTA PARVIFOLIA;

EID: 34547850192     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2006.09.002     Document Type: Article

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