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Provedor de dados: 	31	
País: 	United States	
Título: 	Optimal Management of a Eutrophied Coastal Ecosystem: Balancing Agricultural and Municipal Abatement Measures	
Autores: 	Laukkanen,   Marita; Huhtala,   Anni.	
Data: 	2006-07-10	
Ano: 	2006	
Palavras-chave: 	Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.	
Resumo: 	Agriculture and municipal wastewater are the principal sources of eutrophying nutrients in many water ecosystems. We develop a model which considers the characteristics of agricultural and municipal nutrient abatement. The model explicitly accounts for the investment needed to set up wastewater treatment facilities, and makes it possible to determine the optimal timing of investment as well as the optimal agricultural and municipal abatement levels. We apply the model to the Finnish coastal waters of the Gulf of Finland. Our results indicate that substantial savings in abatement costs and the damage associated with eutrophication could be obtained by constructing the facilities needed to process all the wastewaters entering the coastal ecosystem. The optimal timing of investment is shown to hinge on both the economic and ecological characteristics of the ecosystem.	
Tipo: 	Working or Discussion Paper	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	22946

http://purl.umn.edu/11856	
Editor: 	AgEcon Search	
Relação: 	MTT Agrifood Research Finland&gt;Discussion Papers

MTT Discussion  Papers 4 -2006	
Formato: 	33

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