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Potential Nitrogen Load from Crop-Livestock Systems: An Agri-environmental Spatial Database for a Multi-scale Assessment

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The EU “Water” Directive establishes a common European framework for the environmental protection of inland, coastal and marine waters. Environmental pressures related to agri-livestock systems are still a major concern among the general public and policy makers. In this study, carried out in Umbria region, Italy, a novel spatial database for a multi-scale analysis was designed and implemented integrating different agricultural and livestock farming datasets. Beyond descriptive indicators about agricultural and livestock farming systems, this database allows to assess, at different geographic levels of investigation (cadastral sheets, municipalities, provinces, entire region, Nitrogen Vulnerable Zones, bodies of groundwater, sub-basins), the potential nitrogen crop supply, the potential nitrogen availability from livestock manure, and, by means of a scenario analysis, the total potential nitrogen load. These indicators appear to be very relevant to support decision making and to pursue the environmental objectives established by EU and national regulations.

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  1. Department of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    Marco Vizzari, Mariano Pauselli, Paolo Benincasa, Michela Farneselli, Sara Antognelli, Luciano Morbidini & Piero Borghi

  2. ARPA (Agenzia Regionale Protezione Ambientale), Umbria, Italy

    Alessandra Santucci & Giacomo Bodo

  3. T4E S.r.l., Perugia, Italy

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Vizzari, M. et al. (2015). Potential Nitrogen Load from Crop-Livestock Systems: An Agri-environmental Spatial Database for a Multi-scale Assessment. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2015. ICCSA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9155. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21404-7_4

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