Water quality targets and maintenance of valued landscape character - Experience in the Axe catchment, UK

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 103, Issue , 2012, Pages 142-153

  Glavan, Matjaž ^a   White, Sue M ^b   Holman, Ian P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Landscape; Modelling; Nitrate; Phosphorous; SWAT; Water Framework Directive

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION; CULTIVATION; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; FARMS; LAND USE; NITRATES; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER QUALITY;

BUFFER STRIP; LAND-USE MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE CHARACTERS; MODELING; PHOSPHOROUS; POINT-SOURCES; QUALITY MAINTENANCES; QUALITY TARGETS; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES;

CATCHMENTS;

NITRATE; PHOSPHORUS;

BASELINE CONDITIONS; BUFFER ZONE; CATCHMENT; CULTIVATION; DAIRY FARMING; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; FARMERS KNOWLEDGE; FARMING SYSTEM; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE PROTECTION; MAIZE; NITRATE; PHOSPHORUS; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; STANDARD (REFERENCE); SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; COASTAL WATERS; DAIRYING; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LAKE; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NUTRIENT LOADING; RIVER; SHEEP FARMING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOIL ANALYSIS; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

AXE RIVER; ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

OVIS ARIES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84860508437     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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