Emissions from European Agriculture discusses various aspects of agricultural emissions.

Features:

• Details introductory, theoretical, and methodological issues
• Gives the most recent data on national emissions, particularly these of nitrogen species in several European countries as well as projections of gaseous emissions for all Europe
• Deals exclusively with ammonia in a comprehensive survey of its emission abatement potentials, techniques, the cost of appropriate actions and the difficulties in their practical implementation

Contents

General topics

• Livestock production and emissions of volatile gases
• Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture in Europe
• The assessment of emissions of nitrogen species from agriculture using the methodology of the Atmospheric Emission Inventory Guidebook
• Particulate matter emissions as a part of air pollution control in agriculture: Definitions, sources, measurements
• Livestock husbandry systems in Europe: Evaluation of the 2003 UNECE ammonia expert group questionnaire
• Emission, transmission, deposition and environmental effects of ammonia from agricultural sources
• Ammonia emission inventories, uncertainty and sensitivity analyses
• DYNAMO: An empirical model for the calculation of ammonia emissions of farms and regions
• Methods to measure ammonia emissions from agriculture: Basic principles and limitation in practical use
• CFD methods to predict close range spreading of ventilation air from livestock buildings

Emissions inventories from agriculture

• Emission inventory for the agricultural sector in Austria: state of the art and future developments
• Norwegian ammonia emissions –present state and perspective
• The German agricultural emission inventor
• Ammonia emissions from Irish agriculture
• New national inventory of ammonia emissions in the Czech Republic and experiences with application of environmental law on air protection
• Finnish ammonia emissions from agriculture
• Ammonia emissions in Poland: Inventory, projections, uncertainties
• Projections of agricultural emissions of ammonia in the European Union

Abatement potentials, measures and cost

• Calculating abatement costs
• Ammonia emission inventory and emission abatement potential assessment for Switzerland
• Costs of ammonia abatement techniques in Italian intensive livestock farming
• Integrated pollution, prevention and control implementation in Spain: Ongoing and future work
• Some aspects of emissions abatement from agriculture in the Russian Federation
• Polish experience with ammonia emission abatement for straw-based manure
• Effect of litter material on all-year ammonia emission at turkey housing
• The effect of heat extraction from bedding on ammonia concentrations in deep litter pig housing
• Dutch BAT for pigs intensive livestock farming
• Techniques to reduce the ammonia release from a cowshed with tied dairy cattle
• Floating covers to reduce ammonia emissions from slurry
• Some Dutch nutritional approaches for reducing ammonia emission from excreta of non-ruminants
• Nutritional strategies to reduce enteric methane formation in dairy cows
• Animal housing design: Environmental versus animal welfare requirements

Index

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