This paper provides a succinct review of the main developments in the literature on incentive-
based policy mechanisms in the contexts of pollution control and biodiversity conservation …

The main goal of the project was to assess nitrogen pollution of surface waters and
groundwater in the Federal State of North Rhine Westphalia (NRW), Germany. For this …

Industrialization and urbanization, as a result of rapid economic development, have led to
the deterioration of water quality in many rivers in developing countries. The Kelani River in …

Environmental flows are critical to sustaining a variety of plant and animal communities in
wetlands. However, evaluation of environmental flows is hampered by the problem of …

This paper develops and applies a spatially explicit bioeconomic model to study
transboundary nutrient pollution of the Baltic Sea. We combine catchment, marine and …

This paper assesses the cost-effectiveness of a mixed policy in attempts to reduce the
presence of three nitrogen pollutants: NO 3, N 2 O, and NH 3. The policy under study …

Within a collaborative project between Slovenian Environment Agency (ARSO) and
Research Center Jülich (FZJ), nitrogen reduction levels necessary to reach groundwater …

Regulators are often reluctant to rely solely on economic incentives to achieve
environmental standards. We evaluate a “mixed approach” of economic instruments and …

Irrigated agriculture is one of the most important sources of nitrate pollution of water
resources. For this reason, during the past decade, various policies have been proposed in …

Nitrogen loss from farmland has caused serious problems all over the world. This field study
assessed Nitrogen Use Efficiency1 (NUE) and biomass yield under four different field …