Tradeoffs between environmental goals and urban development: The case of nitrogen load from the Stockholm county to the Baltic Sea

Ambio

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 650-656

  Jansson, Åsa ^a   Colding, Johan ^a  

^a ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GROWTH; LEAKAGE; NITROGEN; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; TRADE-OFF; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

ARTICLE; CITY PLANNING; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POLICY; SEA; SEWAGE; SWEDEN; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION; WETLAND;

CITY PLANNING; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEWAGE; SWEDEN; URBAN RENEWAL; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION; WETLANDS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; STOCKHOLM [SWEDEN]; SWEDEN;

EID: 38349061823     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[650:TBEGAU]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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67. First submitted 28 November 2006. Accepted for publication 20 February 2007.