Ammonia abatement strategies in livestock production: A case study of a poultry installation

The model finds that the uniform rules proposed under the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive (IPPC) are likely to be ineffective in certain contexts and that a landscape-scale approach is more suitable for reducing N deposition from livestock production units in environmentally sensitive locations. However, the adjustments required are associated with large reductions in net margin. This reflects the limited range of cost-effective NH3 abatement techniques available. An alternative cost-effective abatement technique could be to maintain a spatial buffer between livestock production and sensitive receptors.