| Title: | A life cycle impact assessment method for freshwater eutrophication due to the transport of phosphorus from agricultural production |
| Authors: | Ortiz-Reyes, E. and R.P. Anex |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Journal: | Journal of Cleaner Production |
| Volume (Issue): | 177 |
| Pages: | 474-482 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.255 |
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| Model: | SWAT |
| Broad Application Category: | pollutant only |
| Primary Application Category: | phosphorus cycling/loss and transport |
| Secondary Application Category: | model and/or data comparison |
| Watershed Description: | 9,400 km^2 Raccoon River, located in west central Iowa, and four hypothetical 64.8 ha fields located near Sioux City, Iowa, and Columbus, Mullen, and Harrison, Nebraska, U.S. (see general comments). |
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| General Comments: | The SWAT results reported here were not generated in this study but were obtained from two previous studies (see Table 2 and Figure 3) . The Raccoon River results were originally reported by: Jha, M., P.W. Gassman and J.G. Arnold. 2007. Water quality modeling for the Raccoon River Watershed using SWAT. Transactions of the ASABE. 50(2): 479-493. Doi: 10.13031/2013.22660. The hypothetical field results were reported by: Van Liew, M.W., 2013. Assessing climate change impacts on water balance, runoff, and water quality at the field scale for four locations in the heartland. Transactions of the ASABE. 56(3): 883-900. Doi: 10.13031/trans.56.9134. |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | Life cycle assessment, Eutrophication potential, Phosphorus discharge, Agriculture, Impact category, Fertilizer |