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Sustainable nitrogen management under climate change in Austria
Subproject of: Nachhaltiges Stickstoffmanagement unter klimawandel (NitroClim.AT)
- Project Leader
- Schmid Erwin, Project Leader
- Duration:
- 01.05.2018-31.12.2021
- Programme:
- Austrian Climate Research Programme (ACRP) - Individual Project
- Type of Research
- Applied Research
- Staff
- BOKU Research Units
- Institute for Sustainable Economic Development
- Abstract
- NitroClim.AT will evaluate and provide a cost estimation of agricultural management strategies for Austrian agricultural systems that are able to minimize reactive nitrogen (Nr) losses to the envi-ronment under future climate and future socio-economic and policy scenarios. The uncertainties of the strategies will be quantified. An integrated modelling framework consisting of a biophysical pro-cess model (EPIC), an economic land use model (PASMA[grid]), and two eco-hydrological models (MONERIS and SWAT) will track Nr emissions from and flows in agriculture. The outcomes of the research will be a ranking of agricultural management strategies for specific agricultural systems that minimize future Nr losses to the water, soil and atmosphere, together with an economic value of the losses and a quantification of the Nr loss uncertainty under future climate simulations and under future socio-economic scenarios. This will help to better guide policy makers to choose robust measures under a multi-criteria decision-making context.
- Keywords
- Agricultural economics; Sustainable agriculture; Environmental economics;
- climate change; landuse change; agricultural measures; multicriteria optimization;