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Nitrates from Agriculture in Europe : The EC Nitrates Directive and Its Implementation in England
The United Nations recently issued a stern warning regarding the excessive use of nitrogen in agriculture: “[W]e are fertilizing the Earth on a global scale and in a largely uncontrolled experiment.” Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for crop production.
Grossman, Margaret Rosso, Grossman, M.R.
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The untapped potential for carbon sequestration in agricultural soils represents one of the most cost-effective tools for climate change mitigation.
Gregory Reuland +5 more
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Quality of drinking water in rural areas: problems of legal environment [PDF]
The article is devoted to the scientific and theoretical analysis of the current state of legal provision of drinking water quality in rural areas. It was stated that in recent years there has been a steady trend of deteriorating quality of water used ...
Yermolenko Volodymyr +5 more
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Agriculture is a significant contributor to nitrate pollution of groundwater which in many cases serves as a source of drinking water. Therefore, targeted reduction of nitrogen leaching losses is fully justified to address this issue.
Bujnovský Radoslav, Koco Štefan
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Implementation of Nitrate Directive to Poland
In the paper the present state of implementation of three main resolutions of Nitrate Directive is presented. Polish Code of GAP has been prepared already in 1999 in collaboration with Danish Advisory Service in Agriculture and after approval by Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Ministry of Environment, disseminated in several ...
Fotyma, Mariusz, Duer, Irena
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Direct nitration of five membered heterocycles [PDF]
Direct nitration of a variety of furans, pyrroles, thiophenes, pyrazoles, imidazoles, isoxazoles and thiazoles (17 compounds) with nitric acid/trifluoroacetic anhydride affords mononitro derivatives in average yield of 60 %.
Alan R. Katritzky +5 more
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The aim of the study was to detect nitrate concentrations in leachate within agricultural land in three districts of Slovakia, namely Nitra, Nové Zámky and Dunajská Streda as well as in the DEEPWATER-CE pilot area.
Radoslav Bujnovský +4 more
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High-resolution monitoring of nutrients in groundwater and surface waters: process understanding, quantification of loads and concentrations, and management applications [PDF]
Four sessions on "Monitoring Strategies: temporal trends in groundwater and surface water quality and quantity" at the EGU conferences in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 and a special issue of HESS form the background for this overview of the current state of
F. C. van Geer +2 more
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Assessment of environmental and farm business impacts of phosphorus policies in two European regions
This paper presents analyses of the economic and environmental impact of relevant phosphorus management policy scenarios, using representative pig and poultry farms in the Emilia-Romagna region (Po River basin, Italy) and Niedersachsen region (Ems River ...
Linda Arata +6 more
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Relevance of nitrate and nitrite in dry-cured ham and their effects on aroma development
Potassium and sodium salts of nitrite (E 249 and E 250) and nitrate (E 251 and E 252) are authorised for use under certain levels in several foodstuffs such as non-heat-treated, cured and dried meat products, other cured meat products, canned meat ...
Fidel Toldrá +2 more
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