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Wetlands have been suggested as an effective and low cost alternative for dealing with the nitrogen pollution of water resources, such as rivers and ground water. Fleischer et al. (1991) show that in a nitrogen abatement program in Southern Sweden wetlands would account for approximately 10–20% of the total nitrogen abatement. However, there have been very few estimates of wetlands’ capacity to reduce water borne nitrogen pollution in Sweden, and the cost estimates have been rather rough.
I am grateful to Ing-Marie Gren, at the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, for valuable comments on this paper. I also would like to thank Dodo Thampapillai at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
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Byström, O. (1999). Wetlands as a Nitrogen Sink — Estimation of Costs in the Laholm Bay. In: Boman, M., Brännlund, R., Kriström, B. (eds) Topics in Environmental Economics. Economy & Environment, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3544-5_7
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