Simulation of alternative dairy farm pollution abatement policies

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 2-7

  Ramilan, T ^a   Scrimgeour, F G ^a   Levy, G ^b   Marsh, D ^a   Romera, A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b DairyNZ   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Differential evolution; Environmental policy; Heterogeneity; Non linear optimisation; Whole Farm Model

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HETEROGENEITY; NON-LINEAR; WHOLE FARM MODEL;

BIOLOGY; CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FARMS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; NITROGEN; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY;

POLLUTION CONTROL;

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CATCHMENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DAIRY FARMING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FARMING SYSTEM; HETEROGENEITY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NITROGEN; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTION POLICY; SOIL TYPE; THRESHOLD; TOPOGRAPHY; TRADE-OFF;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 77957234119     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.05.016     Document Type: Article

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