Zhengzheng Hao

An Integrated Modelling Approach to Design Cost-Effective AES for Agricultural Soil Erosion and Water Pollution

An Application of a Real Watershed in China

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Agri-environment schemes (AES) is frequently adopted for tricky environmental issues. One key concern for AES design is to optimize the cost-effectiveness. For issues of cost-effective prevention of agricultural soil erosion and non-point source water pollution, although models that assess both environmental effects and economic costs of land use measures have been developed, they typically adopt a planning perspective instead of designing AES with the role of farmers being considered. This book presents a spatially explicit novel integrated modelling approach that addresses the shortcoming by combining several components. The relevance of the modelling approach is demonstrated in this book by applying it to the Baishahe watershed in Shanxi province in China. The results show that the modelling approach is robust to design cost-effective AES, i.e. under given budget the maximum environmental effect in the study region could be attained with a set of designed payments for measuresin AES. The developed modelling approach is generic and powerful for application in all kinds of agricultural watersheds with various sizes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden / Springer Spektrum / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-658-41339-2
• 1st ed. 2023
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 311g
• ISBN-13: 9783658413392
• ISBN-10: 3658413395
• Artikelnr.: 67652959

Autorenporträt

About the author  Dr. Zhengzheng Hao has been working in the field of environmental economics, with interest in topics of agri-environmental schemes, payment for ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, climate change, etc.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- Background Information.- Study Region Introduction.- Overview of Integrated Hydro-Economic Modeling Approach.- Identification of Mitigation Measures.- Mitigation Effect Assessment.- Agri-Economic Cost Assessment.- Simulation and Optimization of AES.- Results and Analysis.- Conclusion and Discussion.