The Irish agricultural catchments programme: Catchment selection using spatial multi-criteria decision analysis

Soil Use and Management

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 225-236

  Fealy, R M ^a   Buckley, C ^b   Mechan, S ^a   Melland, A ^a   Mellander, P E ^a   Shortle, G ^a   Wall, D ^a   Jordan, P ^c  

^a TEAGASC   (Ireland)

^b Rural Economy Research Centre Ireland   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catchments; GIS; MCDA; Nitrates Directive

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; DECISION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GIS; GRASSLAND; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; KARST; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; NITRATE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; POLLUTION CONTROL; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WATER QUALITY;

IRELAND;

EID: 77956131009     PISSN: 02660032     EISSN: 14752743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-2743.2010.00291.x     Document Type: Article

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