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Brian H. Jacobsen

Senior Researcher Institute of Food Economics, University of Copenhagen
Verified email at ifro.ku.dk
Cited by 2979

Managing nitrogen legacies to accelerate water quality improvement

…, P Van Cappellen, R Brouwer, BH Jacobsen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Increasing incidences of eutrophication and groundwater quality impairment from agricultural
nitrogen pollution are threatening humans and ecosystem health. Minimal improvements …

Costs and benefits of nitrogen for Europe and implications for mitigation

…, M Holland, BH Jacobsen… - … science & technology, 2013 - ACS Publications
Cost-benefit analysis can be used to provide guidance for emerging policy priorities in reducing
nitrogen (N) pollution. This paper provides a critical and comprehensive assessment of …

[HTML][HTML] Policies for agricultural nitrogen management—trends, challenges and prospects for improved efficiency in Denmark

…, O Hertel, NJ Hutchings, BH Jacobsen… - Environmental …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
With more than 60% of the land farmed, with vulnerable freshwater and marine environments,
and with one of the most intensive, export-oriented livestock sectors in the world, the …

Management, regulation and environmental impacts of nitrogen fertilization in northwestern Europe under the Nitrates Directive; a benchmark study

…, P Durand, A Hart, G Hofman, BH Jacobsen… - …, 2012 - bg.copernicus.org
Implementation of the Nitrates Directive (NiD) and its environmental impacts were compared
for member states in the northwest of the European Union (Ireland, United Kingdom, …

[HTML][HTML] Establishing long-term nitrogen response of global cereals to assess sustainable fertilizer rates

…, M Quemada, TW Bruulsema, BH Jacobsen… - Nature Food, 2022 - nature.com
Insight into the response of cereal yields to nitrogen fertilizer is fundamental to improving
nutrient management and policies to sustain economic crop benefits and food sufficiency with …

Farmers' reasons to accept bio-based fertilizers: A choice experiment in seven different European countries

…, L Debruyne, F Marchand, BH Jacobsen… - Journal of cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
European agriculture is a large importer of nutrients in the form of chemical fertilizers.
Additionally, countries with livestock-intensive farming face problems with disposal of nutrients in …

[HTML][HTML] Stakeholder engagement and knowledge co-creation in water planning: Can public participation increase cost-effectiveness?

M Graversgaard, BH Jacobsen, C Kjeldsen, T Dalgaard - Water, 2017 - mdpi.com
In 2014, a radical shift took place in Danish water planning. Following years of a top-down
water planning approach, 23 regional water councils were established to co-create and …

Nitrate reduction in geologically heterogeneous catchments—A framework for assessing the scale of predictive capability of hydrological models

…, F Gertz, AL Hansen, X He, BH Jacobsen… - Science of the Total …, 2014 - Elsevier
In order to fulfil the requirements of the EU Water Framework Directive nitrate load from
agricultural areas to surface water in Denmark needs to be reduced by about 40%. The …

Organic farming scenarios: operational analysis and costs of implementing innovative technologies

CG Sørensen, NA Madsen, BH Jacobsen - Biosystems engineering, 2005 - Elsevier
The objective of this study has been to design a number of farm scenarios representing
future plausible and internally consistent organic farming enterprises based on milk, pig, and …

Why Danish pig farms have far more land and pigs than Dutch farms? Implications for feed supply, manure recycling and production costs

J Willems, HJM Van Grinsven, BH Jacobsen… - Agricultural …, 2016 - Elsevier
The Netherlands and Denmark are the two biggest pig meat exporters in Europe, both with
a strong focus on the German market. The structure of pig farms is very different: an average …