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Soil, land-use & agriculture: LIFE project publications
This page provides a selection of soil, land-use & agriculture-related publications that are of particular relevance to the LIFE programme and have been published by project beneficiaries.
LIFE manual on reducing nitrate and phosphorus run-off
2009
Denmark’s Agricultural Advisory Service, a LIFE Environment beneficiary, has produced the Good Agricultural Practices manual in the framework of their AGWAPLAN (AGriculture and WAter PLAN) project (LIFE05 ENV/DK/000155). The manual contains a description of different methods to reduce the losses of nitrate and phosphorus from agriculture at farm and at catchment level. The goal is to provide environmental authorities and farmers with a common tool when looking for the most cost-effective methods to reduce agriculture’s impact on the water environment – i.e. groundwater, lakes, and the sea. Besides the description of the different methods, the manual also includes a spreadsheet in which the effect of the different measures on nitrate leaching can be calculated at farm level. The spreadsheet further includes an evaluation of the different methods to reduce phosphorus loss. For more information, visit the project’s website
Download: Agwaplan Manual.xlsx
(~112 KB)
Outcomes of final seminar 2005 - Combating Urban Pressures on European Heathlands in Dorset
2005, 51p.
This document presents the outcomes of the final seminar of the LIFE project Combatting urban pressures degrading European heathlands in Dorset (LIFE00 NAT/UK/007079). It includes sections giving an overview of the Dorset heaths, presenting a firefighter's life or schools based heathland eduction.
Download: Outcomes of final seminar
(~3.4 MB)
Catálogo de modelo de enfoque gradual a EMAS y modelos de agrupación de necesidades comunes y de gestión ambiental conjunta a costes compartidos
Catalogue of best available techniques and good environmental practices in the agricultural sector, 73 p.
This guide offers a flexible model for EMAS implementation in the agricultural sector. The model aims to achieve a gradual focus which will allow registration in EMAS and which is able to respond to the particularities of this sector based on results tested by the LIFE project EMAS FARMING (LIFE00 ENV/E/000387).
The publication is written in Spanish, English and French.
Download: Catálogo de modelo de enfoque gradual a EMAS
(~1.4 MB)
In addition, the project published a complementary catalogue of best available techniques and good environmental practices in the agricultural sector, aimed at generating cost savings and environmental improvements. It is available in Spanish, English and French.
Download: Catálogo de mejores técnicas disponibles en el sector agropecuario
(~3,6 MB)
For yet more examples of projects funded by the programme, visit the LIFE project database.