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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Nutrient Trading"”.
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Two analyses of costs of agricultural NPS pollution: Transactions costs of expanding nutrient trading to agricultural working lands and Impacts of TCs and differential BMP adoption rates on the cost of reducing agricultural NPS pollution in Virginia
… represents the single largest source of nutrient loads to the Chesapeake Bay. Despite aggressive regulatory efforts in other nutrient source sectors, state authorities rely on educational programs and voluntary financial assistance programs to induce landowners to adopt best management …
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Municipal wastewater treatment plants' nitrogen removal response to financial incentives in Maryland and Virginia
… (TMDL) for the entire watershed that established nutrient reduction targets to achieve Bay water quality objectives. The TMDL required states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed to create implementation plans to meet nutrient reductions. Maryland and Virginia specifically established stringent point …
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Simulation and Optimization of a Constructed Wetland for Biomass Production and Nitrate Removal
Recently there is growing concern about high nutrient loadings in surface waters as a result of intensive agriculture, resulting in hypoxia in costal ecosystems. There is simultaneous growing interest in the cultivation of perennial grasses for bio-ethanol production. Constructed wetlands offer a …
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Continuous No-till Management: Implications for Soil Quality, Carbon Sequestration, and Nitrogen Conservation
No-till management for agronomic crop production is recognized as an effective practice to regain a portion of soil organic matter lost following decades of cultivation. Increasing soil organic matter sequesters C, conserves organic N and concomitantly improves soil quality. Objectives of this …
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Multipurpose Approaches to Regional Goals: Chapters in Environmental and Development Economics
… Protection Agency (EPA) set extensive nutrient and sediment reduction goals under the 2010 Chesapeake Bay TMDL. Virginia has responded by passing along explicit nutrient and sediment reduction requirements to its MS4s, which can choose from a variety of urban stormwater, land use …