A software tool for estimating the capacity of agricultural land in England and Wales for recycling organic materials (ALOWANCE)
A software tool for estimating the capacity of agricultural land in England and Wales for recycling organic materials (ALOWANCE)
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用于估算英格兰和威尔士农田回收有机材料能力的软件工具 (ALOWANCE)
DOI：
10.1111/j.1475-2743.2012.00410.x
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
B. Chambers
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作者：
F. Nicholson;S. Humphries;S. Anthony;S. R. Smith;D. Chadwick;B. Chambers
农业土地和有机“废物”：国家容量估计器（ALOWANCE）是一个基于GIS的工具，它根据许多物理和实际限制以及立法限制来估计英格兰和威尔士可用于回收有机材料的农业土地库。它可以用来确定哪些地区可能存在可用农业土地的短缺或过剩，并确定农业土地储备将继续用于接收有机材料的时间长度。已经开发了两个版本的ALOWANCE。ALOWANCE‐PLUS是一个基于PC的工具，为少数“专家”用户提供ALOWANCE的全部功能。它结合了情景测试能力，使农业土地储备能力进行交互式计算。ALOWANCE‐ONLINE是一个基于网络的版本，为“一般”用户提供信息，包括预先选择的地图“图层”（由ALOWANCE‐PLUS生成）和简单的查询工具。ALOWANCE‐PLUS的结果显示，在排除和考虑当前的有机材料来源（牲畜粪便，生物固体，堆肥，纸张碎屑和堆肥）后，英格兰和威尔士增加“新”有机材料来源的估计农业土地储备为c。510万公顷。 空间表示表明，在该国的某些地区（例如英格兰西北部），农业土地储备已经处于“压力”之下，可能需要将任何未来新兴的有机材料来源从这些地区运输出去。
Agricultural Land and Organic ‘Waste’: A National Capacity Estimator (ALOWANCE) is a GIS‐based tool that estimates the available agricultural landbank in England and Wales for recycling organic materials based on a number of physical and practical constraints, and legislative restrictions. It can be used to identify areas where there is a potential shortage or surplus of available agricultural land and to determine the length of time for which the agricultural landbank would continue to be available to receive organic materials. Two versions of ALOWANCE have been developed. ALOWANCE‐PLUS is a PC‐based tool that provides the full functionality of ALOWANCE to a small number of ‘expert’ users. It incorporates scenario testing capabilities, allowing the agricultural landbank capacity to be calculated interactively. ALOWANCE‐ONLINE is a web‐based version that provides information to ‘general’ users, including pre‐selected map ‘layers’ (generated from ALOWANCE‐PLUS) and a simple query tool. Results from ALOWANCE‐PLUS showed that after exclusions and after accounting for current sources of organic materials (livestock manures, biosolids, compost, paper crumble and digestate), the estimated agricultural landbank in England and Wales for the addition of ‘new’ sources of organic materials was c. 5.1 million ha. Spatial representations showed that in some parts of the country (e.g. north‐west England), the agricultural landbank was already under ‘pressure’ and transport of any future emerging sources of organic materials away from these areas may be required.