Controlling Mineral Emissions in European Agriculture: Economics, Policies and the Environment

by Jesper Simonsen, Eirik Romstad, Arild Vatn

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 Common Agricultural Policy as well as the development of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851991823
• ISBN13: 9780851991825
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Cabi
• Length: 304 Pages