The California nitrogen assessment : challenges and solutions for people, agriculture, and the environment /

"Nitrogen is indispensable to all life on Earth. However, humans now dominate the nitrogen cycle and nitrogen emissions resulting from human activity involve real costs: water and air pollution, climate change, and detrimental effects for human health, biodiversity, and natural habitat. Too lit...

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Other Authors: Tomich, Thomas P. 1956- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Series:Stephen Bechtel Fund imprint in ecology and the environment.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introducing the California nitrogen assessment
  • Underlying drivers of nitrogen flows in California
  • Direct drivers of California's nitrogen cycle
  • A California nitrogen mass balance for 2005
  • Ecosystem services and human well-being
  • Scenarios for the future of nitrogen management in California agriculture
  • Responses: Policies and institutions.