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Landscape planning to reduce coastal eutrophication: agricultural practices and constructed wetlands
SMHI, Forskningsavdelningen, Hydrologi.ORCID-id: 0000-0001-8314-0735
SMHI, Forskningsavdelningen.
2004 (engelsk)Inngår i: Landscape and Urban Planning, ISSN 0169-2046, E-ISSN 1872-6062, Vol. 67, nr 1-4, s. 205-215Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
Abstract [en]

Southern Sweden suffers from coastal eutrophication and one reason is the high nitrogen load through rivers. The major part of this load originates from diffuse land-based sources, e.g. arable soil leaching. Effective reduction of load from such sources demand careful landscape analysis, combined with changed behaviour of the stakeholders. This study describes a chain of methods to achieve trustworthy management plans that are based on numerical modelling and stakeholders participation and acceptance. The effect of some measures was unexpected when modelling their impact on the catchment scale. Management scenarios to reduce riverine nitrogen load were constructed in an actor game (i.e. role-play) for the Genevadsan catchment in southern Sweden. The game included stakeholders for implementation of a loading standard for maximum nitrogen transport at the river mouth. Scenarios were defined after negotiation among involved actors and included changes in agricultural practices, improved wastewater treatment, and establishment of wetlands. Numerical models were used to calculate the nitrogen reduction for different measures in each scenario. An index model (STANK) calculated the root zone leaching of nitrogen from crops at four type farms. This generated input to a catchment scale model (HBV-N) and farm economics. The economic impact of different sets of remedial measures was evaluated for each type farm and then extrapolated to the catchment. The results from scenario modelling show that possible changes in agricultural practices (such as tuning, timing of fertilisation and ploughing, changed crop cultivation) could reduce the nitrogen load to the sea by some 30%, while wetland construction only reduced the original load by some 5%. In the most cost-effective scenario agricultural practices could reduce the riverine load by 86 t per year at a cost of 1.0 million SEK, while constructed wetlands only reduced the load by 14 t per year at a cost of 1.7 million SEK. Thus, changed agricultural practices can be the most effective and less expensive way to reduce nitrogen transport from land to the sea, while constructed wetlands with realistic allocations and sizes may only have small impact on riverine nitrogen transport from land to sea. The overall experience is that actor games and numerical modelling are useful tools in landscape planning for analysing stakeholders' behaviour and the impact of measures to reduce coastal eutrophication. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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2004. Vol. 67, nr 1-4, s. 205-215
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nitrogen, transport, catchment, modelling, scenarios, agriculture, wetlands
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Hydrologi
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URN: urn:nbn:se:smhi:diva-1323DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2046(03)00040-9ISI: 000189256900016OAI: oai:DiVA.org:smhi-1323DiVA, id: diva2:814148
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IALE European Conference, 2001, Stockholm, SWEDEN
Tilgjengelig fra: 2015-05-26 Laget: 2015-05-26 Sist oppdatert: 2018-01-11bibliografisk kontrollert

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