Emissions of pesticides in the European Union: a new regional-level dataset.

ABSTRACT: We present a European Union (EU)-wide dataset of estimated quantities of active substances of plant protection product applied on crops (also called "emissions"). Our estimates are derived from data reported by eight EU countries and extrapolated to encompass all EU regions using regression models. These models consider both climate and agricultural land use data. This allows us to spatially represent pesticide use at NUTS Level 3 of the European statistical mapping units, and within various agricultural land cover classes in each region. We compare our estimates with aggregated data provided by EUROSTAT and with independent, detailed data for the United Kingdom, highlighting an error typically within one order of magnitude. Our estimates can provide insights into the distribution and patt

SUBMITTER: Udias A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10698185 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature