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Stakeholder and expert-guided scenarios for agriculture and landscape development in a groundwater protection area

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  • Henrik Vejre
  • Jens Peter Vesterager
  • Lone S. Kristensen
  • Jørgen Primdahl

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Nitrate and pesticide leaching led to the designation of groundwater protection zones in Denmark. The protective measures in these zones often clash with local interests in agriculture. Scenarios were used to evaluate the development of a groundwater protection zone in a farming area. Stakeholders are accorded strong influence on the scenarios. Scenario inputs comprised land cover, land use and farmers' plans and preferences, as registered in interviews with farmers. Scenarios were evaluated regarding the effect on nitrate leaching, extent of pesticide-free area and farm income. The scenarios proved effective in modelling coupled development in land use/land cover and nitrate leaching and pesticide-free area. Voluntary commitment to schemes, calculated according to stakeholder preferences, reduced nitrate leaching by up to 15%. Scenarios with additional inputs from experts who formulated more comprehensive landscape projects reduced the present loss by up to 30%. In both cases, the pesticide free areas were doubled. In general, the bottom-up approaches had a lesser effect on reducing nitrogen losses than did the top-down approaches.

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  • Henrik Vejre & Jens Peter Vesterager & Lone S. Kristensen & Jørgen Primdahl, 2011. "Stakeholder and expert-guided scenarios for agriculture and landscape development in a groundwater protection area," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(9), pages 1169-1187, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:54:y:2011:i:9:p:1169-1187
    DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2011.560782
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    1. Andreas Aa. Christensen & Peter S. Andersen & Chris Kjeldsen & Morten Graversgaard & Erling Andersen & Kristoffer Piil & Tommy Dalgaard & Jørgen E. Olesen & Henrik Vejre, 2021. "Achieving Sustainable Nitrogen Management in Mixed Farming Landscapes Based on Collaborative Planning," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-21, February.
    2. Vejre, H. & Vesterager, J.P. & Andersen, P.S. & Olafsson, A.S. & Brandt, J. & Dalgaard, T., 2015. "Does cadastral division of area-based ecosystem services obstruct comprehensive management?," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 295(C), pages 176-187.

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