The intensity of agricultural production affects both nutrient and greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental policy … the Lake Rotorua catchment in New Zealand using an agro-environmental economic model, NManager. The Regional Council is …-point sources such as farmland, while at the same time the NZ government is planning the agricultural sector into the GHG emissions …

available and it should be possible to meet the demand for solid biomass for direct combustion without the need for significant …Directive 2009/28/EC established a common framework for the use, production and promotion of energy from renewable … sources. Subsequently, each European Union Member State was required to prepare a national Renewable Energy Action Plan (REAP …

The amendment of the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) in 2004 has established an attractive support of using … renewable resources for energy production, which since then has fuelled a rapid expansion of the competitive cropping of energy … maize. The regionalised agricultural sector model RAUMIS was applied to calculate expected energy maize production as well …

fertilizer application. This study develops a dynamic economic model of stover harvest that permits conceptualization and … quantification of these potential tradeoffs. We parameterize our model based on publicly available studies of soil biophysical … sensitive and negatively linked to corn prices, which means that policies favoring the use of stover for biomass may be …

owners’ responsibilities for achieving a true sustainable forest management as well as stakeholders’ expectations on the …