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An actor game is chosen as the key component of the study with a focus on four major goals, to test the implementability of legally binding environmental quality standards for nitrate concentration in groundwater and N transport to the sea, to find sets of agriculturally feasible and cost-effective measures to decrease N loads, to investigate the possibilities for collective action trough negotiated and institutionalized actor cooperation, and to investigate the role of mathematical modeling in environmental N management. The result showed that it appeared to be possible to meet ambitious environmental N standards with less economically drastic measures than anticipated by most of the participants.
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Yellow River Delta, the fastest rate of land growth in the world suffers from environmental degradation because of seawater encroachment, groundwater pollution, land subsidence, and soil salinization. It is imperative that the local government should take action to ensure the continuity of economic development and ensure the future protection of the environment.
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The agricultural methods used in villages in the Northern Himalayan region of India are not sustainable and are turning cultivatable land into wastelands. The agriculture centers around a catchment of rainfall water and does not employ irrigation. Irrigation and better land management could improve agriculture in the region.
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