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Landscape configuration is the primary driver of impacts on water quality associated with agricultural expansion [1]

Corporations and other multinational institutions are increasingly looking to evaluate their innovation and procurement decisions over a range of environmental criteria, including impacts on ecosystem services according to the spatial configuration of activities on the landscape. We have developed a spatially explicit approach and modeled a hypothetical corporate supply chain decision representing contrasting patterns of land-use change in four regions of the globe. This illustrates the effect of introducing spatial considerations in the analysis of ecosystem services, specifically sediment retention. We explored a wide variety of contexts (Iowa, USA; Mato Grosso, Brazil; and Jiangxi and Heilongjiang in China) and these show that per-area representation of impacts based on the physical characterization of a region can be misleading.

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
11/07/2016
Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer [3], Perrine Hamel [4], Richard Sharp & et al [5]
Environmental Research Letters [6]
1-12
Tags:
Land Use [7], Water Quality [8], Ecosystem Services [9], Agriculture [10], Brazil [11], United States Of America (US) [12], China [13], Sediment Transport [14], Soil Erosion [15]

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Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/landscape-configuration-primary-driver-impacts-water-quality-associated-agricultural

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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/landscape-configuration-primary-driver-impacts-water-quality-associated-agricultural
[2] http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/7/074012/pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/rebecca-chaplin-kramer
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/perrine-hamel
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/richard-sharp-et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/environmental-research-letters
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-use
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-quality
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ecosystem-services
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/brazil
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/united-states-america-us
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/china
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sediment-transport
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/soil-erosion