Controlling mineral emissions in European agriculture

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Controlling Mineral Emissions in European Agriculture Economics, Policies and the Environment Edited by: Eirik Romstad, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Agricultural University of Norway, Jesper Simonsen, Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Oslo, Arild Vatn, Agricultural University of Norway.

Mineral emissions from agriculture include nitrogen, phosphorus and heavy metals, derived particularly from fertilizer use and farm animal wastes in intensive agricultural systems. These have the potential to cause pollution and affect the quality of water, soils and agricultural produce. Mineral emissions from agriculture include nitrogen, phosphorus and heavy metals, derived particularly from fertilizer use and farm animal wastes in intensive agricultural systems.

These have the potential to cause pollution and affect the quality of water, soils and agricultural produce. Interest in this subject has increased substantially in recent years, resulting in reforms of part of the. Controlling mineral emissions in European agriculture: economics, policies, and the environment.

Controlling Mineral Emissions in European Agriculture-Economics, Policies and the Environment. Harrison, Ellen Z. Abstract. Not Available. Publication: Soil Science. Pub Date: October DOI: / Bibcode: SoilSH full text sources Author: Ellen Z. Harrison.

[PDF] Controlling Mineral Emissions in European Agriculture: Economics Policies and the Environment. In the book the various aspects of agricultural emissions are discussed. Its first part refers mainly to introductory, theoretical, and methodological issues.

The second part gives the most recent data on national emissions, particularly these of Nitrogen species in selected individual European countries and the projections of their emission.

Ammonia emissions linked to agriculture in Europe are expected to decline by approximately 10% between and Animal and crop production releases ammonia into the atmosphere, with more than 90% of these emissions associated with agriculture.

control of agricultural emissions of air pollutants such as ammonia and particulate matter in Europe. The principles of current methods and techniques of ammonia emission controls in agriculture have a sound scientific basis that is well proven in practice.

NoAuthor: Tsap Report. Agricultural air pollution comes mainly in the form of ammonia, which enters the air as gases from livestock and from fertilisation using products prone to volatilisation. In total, 94 % of all ammonia emissions in the EU result from agriculture.

In this book, the various aspects of agricultural emissions are discussed. Its first part refers mainly to introductory, theoretical, and methodological issues.

The second part gives the most recent data on national emissions, particularly these of nitrogen species in several European countries as well as projections of gaseous emissions for all by:   Around 94 % of ammonia emissions in Europe stemmed from agriculture inmainly from activities such as manure storage, slurry spreading and the use of inorganic nitrogen fertilisers.

CO 2 emissions from peat soil that is drained for agriculture make up Mt CO 2 per year, while for forestry the figure is Mt CO 2. Mitigation options for reducing nutrient emissions from agriculture: a study amongst European member states of Cost action emissions from agriculture.

PDF Download Controlling Mineral Emissions in European Agriculture Economics Policies and the Download Full Ebook. This would mean that agriculture’s non-CO2 emissions would increase as a share of total EU GHG emissions from around 9% to 14%, and from 17% to 24% as a share of the required non-ETS emissions.

The main source of agricultural non-CO2 GHGs are N2O emissions from microbial processes in soils due to nitrogen input from mineral and organic. Most of the volume of animal manure produced in Europe is applied to fields as slurry (Menzi et al., ). NH 3 emission from slurry applied in the field is variable, with emissions varying from 0 to 60% of the applied ammoniacal N (Lauer et al.,Vertregt Cited by: Tackling climate change through livestock – A global assessment of emissions and mitigation opportunities.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome. Photo credits Cover and page @SIE-Masterfile Page 1: @FAO/Giulio Napolitano Page 5: @FAO/Noah Seelam. Mitigation options for reducing nutrient emissions from agriculture.

A study amongst European member states of Cost action Article (PDF Available) January with Reads. Residential carbon dioxide emissions can be divided into a direct component caused by consumers via direct energy usage and an indirect component caused by consumers buying and using products to meet their needs, with a higher proportion caused by the latter.

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