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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
Volume 50, Issue -, Pages 130-144Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2015.02.001
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Agricultural production; Nutrient leaching; Agricultural economics; Hydrological modeling
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- Ministry of the Agriculture and Forestry of Finland
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Agri-environmental policies are challenging to be evaluated since they are often implemented in combination with other policies and regulations affecting agriculture. Also input and output markets affect agriculture. We provide impact assessment of agri-environmental scheme implemented in Finland 2007-2013 based on integrated economic and hydrological modelling and counterfactual scenarios. Development of crop specific fertilisation and land use changes, simulated using a multi-regional economic sector model, is included in a nutrient leaching model implemented in a typical agricultural region. Our results on agricultural production, land use, and nitrogen leaching show that the agri-environmental policy successfully mitigates nutrient leaching in intensive production regions but some mitigation potential is lost in less intensive regions. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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