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Targeting has become the buzz word in the national agri-environmental policy reform in Finland. It is generally accepted that more environmental benefits could be reaped by implementing environmental protection measures where they have the biggest positive impact. However, considering one of the...
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To comply with the European Nitrate Directive, the Flemish manure policy has been elaborated mainly on the base of command and control measures (maximum fertilisation limits etc.). In literature, however, tradable permits are described as a cost efficient and effective instrument. Applied to...
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regulation systems aimed at reducing nitrogen leaching, analyses of measures for reducing phosphorus losses and estimation of … regulation when compared with administrative regulation and set a side. For phosphorus a balance between incoming and outgoing … phosphorus is very costly as this requires that much slurry is transported from the western to the eastern part of Denmark. The …
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. Modelling was carried out in two stages: determination of the variation of the surfaces, on the basis of equation of news …
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forecasts usually provide estimates for the exogenous variables in modelling work and frequently they are also used for …
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In the last decade Bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) was listed by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) as a notifiable disease, due to the fact that it causes significant production losses in cattle industry worldwide. The production losses include reduced milk production, reduced...
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The impact of policy scenarios on economic welfare and the environment depends to a large extent on their direct effect on land use: a strong increase in the cultivation of legumes means a significant environmental impact and a sizeable impact on other variables such as farmers’ incomes, cost...
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We present and integrated supply and demand side analysis of climate change impacts on the agricultural sector from a European perspective based on a joint application of two European focused global partial equilibrium models. Results show that climate change would considerably affect...
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that, in order to obtain reliable predictions, the modelling of farmers' responses to policy changes must consider the risk …
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.e. Caithness & Sutherland, which is characterised by multifunctional agriculture. In this paper, the context of the modelling work … modelling scenarios, one of which relates to the “decommissioning” (run-down) of a major industrial site (Dounreay) within the … area. The modelling results are discussed, in terms of regional population, land use, economic and other terms, from 2001 …
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