Towards the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive?. Lessons learned from water quality simulations in an agricultural watershed

Land Use Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 580-588

  Volk, Martin ^a   Liersch, Stefan ^a   Schmidt, Gerd ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Land use scenarios; Nitrogen emissions; Nutrient management; SWAT; Water Framework Directive; Water quality

Indexed keywords

COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; NITROGEN; WATER PLANNING; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

EID: 60549094215     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2008.08.005     Document Type: Article

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