Nutrient management for coastal zones: a case study of the nitrogen load to the Stockholm Archipelago

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (9) ◽  
pp. 309-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Scharin
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Area ◽  
Nutrient Management ◽  
Optimal Allocation ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Coastal Zones ◽  
Atmospheric Depositions ◽  
Stockholm Archipelago ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Final Impact

This study investigates cost-effective solutions of decreasing the nutrient load to a coastal area, using a drainage basin approach. The study is applied to the Stockholm Archipelago, a coastal area of the Baltic Sea suffering from eutrophication caused by the load of nutrients entering the area. Nitrogen is the nutrient of concern in this study since it is the limiting nutrient of the Archipelago. The main sources of nitrogen are wastewater plants, agriculture, and atmospheric depositions. The final impact of a deposition depends on the buffering capabilities it is subject to on its trajectory from the source to the recipient. This is the reason for using a recipient oriented approach, in which the focus is to reduce the final impact of a deposition. The model integrates data over hydrology, land cover, land use, and economy in order to find the optimal allocation of measures. Results indicate that in order to achieve cost effectiveness, the major part of nitrogen load reduction to the Archipelago should be done at the wastewater plants and by constructing wetlands. The minimum annual cost of reaching a 50% reduction of the load to the Archipelago was estimated to around 191 million Swedish crowns (around $ 19 million).

Urban cloverleaves: origin, aesthetics, and contradictions of the Slussen, Stockholm

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Álvaro Clua Uceda
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Engineering ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Compact City ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Southern District ◽  
Stockholm Archipelago ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
First Time ◽  
Historic City ◽  
Different Levels

On 11 October 1935, the inauguration of the Slussen urban cloverleaf took place in front of the excited citizens of Stockholm. It had the attributes of a pure traffic machine taken from the most advanced traffic engineering publications, and it expressed the optimistic cultural modernism that five years ago the Stockholm International Exhibition had promoted.1 This urban cloverleaf was made of translucent glass, reinforced concrete, metallic handrails, and reflective tiles and was meant to solve, in one single gesture, the complex urban link between the Lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea, between Gamla Stan – the historic city centre – and Södermalm – the southern district built on top of the 35-metre-high plateau [1]. The solution made difficult urban compromises between the foothills of the Brunkeberg topography, the smooth water surfaces of the Stockholm archipelago, the architecture of the historic urban tissue, and the demands of a complex articulated mobility. Boats, goods, suburban trains, subways, trams – later buses – pedestrians, cyclists, and automobiles finally converged on this place at different levels, completing the intricacies of a threedimensional geometry which, for the first time in history, was inserted into a compact city.

scholarly journals CULTURAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL ATTRIBUTION OF MIDDLE NEOLITHIC MATERIALS FROM THE SETTLEMENTS USHAKOVO 3 AND PRIBREZHNOYE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Э.Б. Зальцман
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Area ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Wall Structure ◽  
Vistula Lagoon ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Double Row ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Funnel Beaker Culture ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Vistula Lagoon

В работе характеризуются новые материалы, полученные в ходе исследований неолитических (по прибалтийской периодизации) поселений побережья Вислинского залива. Данные древности, по всем признакам, относятся к культуре воронковидных кубков, памятники которой ранее в регионе были неизвестны. Все материалы КВК выявлены на поселениях, основные культурные комплексы с которых относятся к приморской культуре шнуровой керамики (рис. 1). Незначительные по размерам стоянки КВК существовали здесь до прихода населения приморской культуры. В Ушаково 3 керамика КВК найдена в культурном слое в восточной части раскопа, где она залегала в основном отдельно от керамики приморской культуры (рис. 2–4). В Прибрежном кроме керамических материалов зафиксированы следы 2 построек с двухрядной столбовой конструкцией стен (рис. 5). Постройки наземного типа, удлиненной формы, шириной не более 3,2 м. Технологические и морфологические характеристики фрагментов керамики, обнаруженной в пределах построек, не оставляют сомнений в том, что эти комплексы принадлежат КВК (рис. 6: 1, 13). Кроме того, здесь же выявлены две амфоры с типичными чертами баденизации в КВК (рис. 6: 14, 15). Керамика КВК встречалась также и в культурном слое поселения (рис. 7: 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12). Все материалы КВК с поселений Ушаково 3 и Прибрежное датируются в диапазоне 3500–3100 гг. CalBC (Приложение 1). Наиболее вероятно, что небольшие по численности группы населения КВК проникли в прибрежную зону около середины IV тыс. до н. э., когда на этой территории уже продолжительное время существовали местные сообщества цедмарской неолитической культуры. The paper characterizes new materials obtained during the excavations of Neolithic sites (according to the Baltic periodization) in the Vistula Lagoon coast. These antiquities are attributed to the Funnel Beaker culture the sites of which have not been discovered in this region before. All FBC materials were identified at settlements where the main cultural assemblages are attributed to the Primorskaya Corded Ware Culture (Fig. 1). Small FBC sites had existed in this area before the arrival of the Primorskaya culture population. Ushakovo 3 revealed FBC ceramics in the occupation layer located in the eastern part of the excavation trench where, in most cases, these artifacts were lying separately from the Primorskaya culture ceramics (Fig. 2–4). Traces of two constructions with a double-row pillar wall structure (Fig. 5) were recorded at Pribrezhnoye. Technological and morphological characteristics of the ceramics discovered in the constructions leave no doubt that these assemblages belong to the FBC (Fig. 6: 1, 13). Two amphorae with typical features of «badenization» in the FBC were discovered at this site as well (Fig. 6: 14, 15). The FBC ceramics also occurred in the occupation layer of the site (Fig. 7: 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12). All FBC materials from Ushakovo 3 and Pribrezhnoye fall within 3500–3100 CalBC (Appendix 1). Most likely, around mid 4th millennium BC small FBC population groups reached the coastal area which had been already inhabited by local Zedmar Neolithic communities for a long time.

scholarly journals Herd Homes: nutrient management and farmer perceptions of performance

2006 ◽  
pp. 309-313
Author(s):  
R.D.Longhurst J. Luo ◽  
M.B. O'Connor ◽  
T. Pow
Keyword(s):  
Nutrient Management ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Nutrient Content ◽  
Land Application ◽  
Nutrient Concentrations ◽  
Dairy Farmers ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Wood Shavings ◽  
Effective Option ◽  
The Media

The recent invention of Herd Homes has presented NZ dairy farmers with a flexible facility for feeding and standing-off stock especially during wet periods. Herd Homes are a combination of feeding platform, stand-off facility and animal shelter comprising a "greenhouse" type roof over slatted concrete floors with an underfloor manure bunker. The prototype Herd Home built in Northland for 230 cows was closely monitored during its initial year (2002/03). Different bunker media were evaluated for their ability to absorb and retain manure nutrients. The media tested were natural materials (soil, wood shavings and a combination of soil/wood shavings) that were all effective at capturing nutrients (N and S) from the bunker manure. Benefits of media amendments are greater nutrient enrichment of the final bunker manure making it more useful for subsequent land application. Use of soil as a bunker medium appears to be the most viable and cost effective option. In early 2006, manure samples were collected from Herd Home bunkers from four geographically diverse areas of NZ and analysed for nutrient content. Nutrient concentrations found reflected variability in cow numbers, usage and feed inputs. In November 2004, 10 existing Herd Home owners were surveyed as to their reasons for purchase. The farmers reported ease of farm management, "on-off" grazing, reduced pugging damage, and improved stock condition and production were some of the beneficial effects of Herd Homes. Keywords: Herd Homes, winter management, wintering system, stand off, feed pad, manure management, bunker manure

Air pollution assessment using a cost-effective device: the case study of the northern Latium coastal area.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Piazzolla ◽  
Giancarlo Della Ventura ◽  
Andrea Terribili ◽  
Alessandra Conte ◽  
Sergio Scanu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Particulate Matter ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Coastal Area ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Coastal Environment ◽  
Tyrrhenian Sea ◽  
Environment Monitoring ◽  
Mobile Monitoring

<p><span>The increase in urbanization requires intense energy consumption and causes an increase in emissions from transportation and industrial sources. As a result, a variety of pollutants are released into the atmosphere with negative effects on the health of organisms and ecosystems as well as on human health. In this perspective, coastal areas are considered "hot</span><span>spot</span><span>s" of environmental contamination since they often host multiple human activities. This issue is particularly dramatic close to important maritime hubs, as a matter of fact overall 25% of the world energy consumption (a major source of pollution) is employed for transport, and over 80% of world trade is carried by sea (Gobbi et al. 2020). </span><span>During 2019-2020 we carried out a continuous monitoring of particulate matter in a fixed station to understand the sources of air pollution in the northern Latium coastal area. This area has been selected for the presence of industrial activities located in a few kilometers of coast (Piazzolla et al. 2020). </span><span>The amount and typology of solid particles present in the environment have been assessed by implementing a reliable cost-effective device (Gozzi et al. 2015, 2017) which integrates an optical particle counter and a filtering set-up able to collect particulate matter with dimension > 400 nm (Della Ventura et al. 2017). Filters were periodically removed from the device and recovered microparticles were subjected to microscopic (optical and electron), spectroscopic (IR, Raman), and microchemical (SEM-EDS) characterization. Results were related to the wind speed and direction measured by</span><span> the </span>Civitavecchia Coastal Environment Monitoring System<span> (</span><span>Bonamano et al. 2015), allowing an evaluation of the contribution of anthropic (industrial and maritime) activities to the pollution in this area.</span></p><p>Bonamano S., Piermattei V., Madonia A., Mendoza F., Pierattini A., Martellucci R., ... <span>& Marcelli M. (2016). The Civitavecchia Coastal Environment Monitoring System (C-CEMS): a new tool to analyze the conflicts between coastal pressures and sensitivity areas. Ocean Science, 12(1).</span><span> DOI 10.5194/os-12-87-2016</span></p><p><span>Della Ventura G., Gozzi F., Marcelli A. (2017) The MIAMI project: design and testing of an IoT lowcost device for mobile monitoring of PM and gaseous pollutants. Superstripe Press, Science Series, 12, 41-44, ISBN 9788866830764</span></p><p>Gobbi G.P., Di Liberto L., Barnaba F. (2020). <span>Impact of port emissions on Eu-regulated and non-regulated air quality indicators: the case of Civitavecchia (Italy). Science of the Total environment, 719. DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134984 </span></p><p><span>Gozzi, F., Della Ventura, G., Marcelli, A. (2015) Mobile monitoring of particulate matter: State of art and perspectives. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 7, 228-234. DOI 10.1016/j.apr.2015.09.007.</span></p><p><span>Gozzi F., Della Ventura G., Marcelli A., Lucci F. (2017) Current status of particulate matter pollution in Europe and future perspectives: a review. Journal of Materials and Environmental Science, 8, 1901-1909. ISSN 2028-2508</span></p><p><span>Piazzolla D., Cafaro V., de Lucia G. A., Mancini E., Scanu S., Bonamano S., ... & Marcelli M. (2020). Microlitter pollution in coastal sediments of the northern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy: microplastics and fly-ash occurrence and distribution. </span>Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 106819. DOI 10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106819</p>

scholarly journals Research on calculation and optimal allocation of groundwater resources in Rizhao coastal area

2020 ◽  
Vol 780 ◽  
pp. 062053
Author(s):  
Yang Bengu ◽  
Yang Peng ◽  
Zhu Wei ◽  
Zhang Hui ◽  
Guo Benli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Area ◽  
Optimal Allocation ◽  
Groundwater Resources

scholarly journals Underwater noise recognition of marine vessels passages: two case studies using hidden Markov models

2019 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 2157-2170
Author(s):  
Manuel Vieira ◽  
M Clara P Amorim ◽  
Andreas Sundelöf ◽  
Nuno Prista ◽  
Paulo J Fonseca
Keyword(s):  
Hidden Markov Models ◽  
Markov Models ◽  
Hidden Markov ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Marine Habitats ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Passive Acoustic ◽  
Identification Processes ◽  
Marine Vessels

Abstract Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is emerging as a cost-effective non-intrusive method to monitor the health and biodiversity of marine habitats, including the impacts of anthropogenic noise on marine organisms. When long PAM recordings are to be analysed, automatic recognition and identification processes are invaluable tools to extract the relevant information. We propose a pattern recognition methodology based on hidden Markov models (HMMs) for the detection and recognition of acoustic signals from marine vessels passages and test it in two different regions, the Tagus estuary in Portugal and the Öresund strait in the Baltic Sea. Results show that the combination of HMMs with PAM provides a powerful tool to monitor the presence of marine vessels and discriminate different vessels such as small boats, ferries, and large ships. Improvements to enhance the capability to discriminate different types of small recreational boats are discussed.

scholarly journals Environmental Economics for Environmental Protection

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1254-1266
Author(s):  
Ekko van Ierland ◽  
Corjan Brink ◽  
Leen Hordijk ◽  
Carolien Kroeze
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Economics ◽  
Common Property ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
Optimal Allocation ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Transboundary Air Pollution ◽  
Reduce Emissions

Environmental economics deals with the optimal allocation of production factors and correcting market failure in protecting the environment. Market failure occurs because of externalities, common property resources, and public goods. Environmental policy instruments include direct regulation, taxes/subsidies, tradable permits, deposit systems, voluntary agreements, and persuasion.Environmental policies usually focus on one pollutant or environmental issue but may have substantial impacts on other emissions and environmental problems. Neglecting these impacts will result in suboptimal policies. We present an integrated optimisation model for determining cost-effective strategies to simultaneously reduce emissions of several pollutants from several sources, allowing for interrelations between sources and abatement options. Our integrated approach in regard to acidifying compounds and greenhouse gases will be able to provide cost-effective policy options that will result in lower overall abatement costs.This paper shows that efficient emission reduction can be calculated, but we argue that, for transboundary air pollution and climate change, it is difficult to implement the socially optimal solution because strong incentives exist for “free-riding”. In order to implement efficient policies, international environmental agree-ments like the Gothenburg or the Kyoto Protocol are necessary to establish stable coalitions. The stability of these agreements depends on the distribution of costs and benefits over countries and on the redistribution of the gains of cooperation.

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