LUMINATE: Linking agricultural land use, local water quality and Gulf of Mexico hypoxia

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 431-459

  Kling, Catherine L ^a   Panagopoulos, Yiannis ^a   Rabotyagov, Sergey S ^b   Valcu, Adriana M ^a   Gassman, Philip W ^a   Campbell, Todd ^a   White, Michael J ^c   Arnold, Jeffrey G ^c   Srinivasan, Raghavan ^d   Jha, Manoj K ^e   Richardson, Jeffrey J ^b   Moskal, L Monika ^b   Turner, R Eugene ^f   Rabalais, Nancy N ^g  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g LOUISIANA UNIVERSITIES MARINE CONSORTIUM   (United States)

Author keywords

Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia; integrate modelling; land use change; LUMINATE; water quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; HYPOXIA; LAND USE; POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; MISSISSIPPI; OHIO; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84904096694     PISSN: 01651587     EISSN: 14643618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbu009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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