Alex Vermeulen
Manager
Agricultural air quality in Europe and the future perspectives
Author
Summary, in English
Agricultural emissions in Europe are important to several atmospheric transport-related environmental issues. These include local and regional air quality problems, such as PM exposure, eutrophication and acidification, toxics and contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, resulting in a number of environmental impacts. Over Europe, agricultural emissions are variable in space and time and the contribution to the different issues are variable. Most important are ammonia (90%), PM (20%) and methane and nitrous oxide (both 5%). Policies have been developed to combat some of the emissions with success in some countries. However, future, national and European policies are necessary to successfully decrease emissions and its related problems. Current research issues include the quantification of non-point sources, the atmosphere-biosphere exchange of ammonia, the quantification of landscape processes and the primary and secondary emissions of PM. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Publishing year
2008
Language
English
Pages
3209-3217
Publication/Series
Atmospheric Environment
Volume
42
Issue
14
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Elsevier
Topic
- Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
Keywords
- air quality
- agriculture
- Europe
- emission
- greenhouse gas
- nitrogen
- ammonia
- particulate matter
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1352-2310