The emergence of emissions trading as a standard feature of national climate mitigation strategies is commonly considered to be evidence of the neoliberalisation of environmental governance. The New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme is distinctive among national climate mitigation programmes in its attempt to establish a financial liability for greenhouse gas emissions arising from agricultural ...

Agriculture is considered one of the main nitrogen (N) pollution sources through the diffuse emissions of ammonia (NH3) and nitrous oxide (N2O) to the atmosphere and nitrate (NO3) to water bodies. The risk is particularly high in horticultural production systems (HPS), where the use of water and fertilizers is intensive and concentrated in space and time, and more specifically, in the case of v...

The Air and Energy Engineering Research Laboratory (AEERL) of EPA began a research program to develop and demonstrate radon mitigation alternatives in 1984. This program grew significantly in 1986 with the addition of a Congressional funding supplement. In 1989 a separate Radon Mitigation Branch was established within the Pollution Control Division of AEERL. Radon mitigation research within EPA...

Wind energy, if improperly sited, can impact wildlife through direct mortality and habitat loss and fragmentation, in contrast to its environmental benefits in the areas of greenhouse gas, air quality, and water quality. Fortunately, risks to wildlife from wind energy may be alleviated through proper siting and mitigation offsets. Here we identify areas in Kansas where wind development is incom...

The research problem is based on the increasing global environmental pollution, reduction of natural potential countries, and importance exploration effective measures for solution these issues. analyzes impact taxes as an policy instrument helping reduce pollution increase agriculture. Environmental are one most important tools GHG emissions in EU. aim to theoretically substantiate role mitiga...

Direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture accounted for approximately 10% of total European Union (EU) emissions in 2010. To reduce farming-related GHG emissions, appropriate policy measures and supporting tools for promoting low-C farming practices may be efficacious. This article presents the methodology and testing results of a new EU-wide, farm-level C footprint calculator. The...

the recently published articles in the iranian journal ofbiotechnology inspired us to write this short communication on nitrogen dioxide no2-philic plants (1).to cope with environmental pollution, we thought(still think) that development of methods that mitigatepollution is an urgent issue, and that no2-philic plantsthat can grow with no2 as the sole nitrogen source areinstrumental for the impl...

This paper studies the voluntary provision of public goods that is partially driven by a desire to offset for individual polluting activities. We first extend existing theory and show that offsets allow a reduction in effective environmental pollution levels while not necessarily extending the consumption of a polluting good. We further show a nonmonotonic income-pollution relationship and deri...

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has played an important role in environmental protection, especially in developing countries. It is an aid to decision-making and to the minimization or elimination of environmental impacts at an early planning stage. For geothermal energy, which currently plays an important part as a clean energy supply, a well-prepared Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA...