Overview
- Brings together a wealth of information on the costs to reduce ammonia emissions from agricultural practices, which provides a scientific underpinning that helps inform policy
- Links ammonia mitigation and climate change
- Allows non-specialists easy access to pertinent information and gives them insight into the complexities of deriving cost estimates for ammonia abatement
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines the costs involved in reducing ammonia emissions from agricultural practices as well as the potential benefits for climate change mitigation. It features contributions by experts in agricultural production processes, producers of agricultural equipment and service providers as well as scientists who assess the issue from an European perspective.
Coverage examines all agricultural production stages starting from animal feed and housing, including the storage and application of liquid and solid manure and of mineral fertilizer. In addition, the book looks at the relationship between ammonia control and greenhouse gas emissions and details the GAINS (Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollution Interactions and Synergies) model for estimating costs and reducing ammonia emissions from agriculture. Examples and case studies from select European countries, including Italy, Switzerland, Russia, Ireland, and Spain, provide readers with detailed studies of ammonia abatement costs and the effectiveness of implementing control measures under different conditions. This book is the result of an Expert Workshop held under the auspices of the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) and organised by the Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen (TFRN). The findings of this workshop have informed the development of documents supporting the revision of the Gothenburg Protocol and provided researchers and practitioners with vital new data. Bringing together a wealth of key information on the costs of ammonia abatement and the climate co-benefits, this monograph provides readers with deep insight into this complex issue.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Costs of Ammonia Abatement and the Climate Co-Benefits
Editors: Stefan Reis, Clare Howard, Mark A. Sutton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9722-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9721-4Published: 02 June 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0390-9Published: 23 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9722-1Published: 19 May 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 284
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Atmospheric Sciences, Pollution, general