Using a Bio-Economic Model to Assess the Cost-Effectiveness of Measures Against Nitrogen Pollution

Water resource management is an inherently complex, multi-scale and multi-disciplinary process involving many interdependent components. As each of these components is the focus of several socio-economic and scientific disciplines, an approach that crosses disciplinary boundaries is needed to provide constructive input to policy making. Scientific approaches have been developed that study the complex relationships between the economic and ecological systems and that aim to provide knowledge for sustainable management of water resources. Such approaches are interdisciplinary in nature, where interdisciplinarity refers to the cooperation of many scientific disciplines, in order to analyse the relationship between the economic and natural system (Baumgartner et al. 2008). Bio-economic modelling is one of those.

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