The California Nitrogen Assessment (eBook)

Challenges and Solutions for People, Agriculture, and the Environment

Thomas P. Tomich (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
352 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96223-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Nitrogen is indispensable to all life on Earth. However, humans now dominate the nitrogen cycle, and nitrogen emissions from human activity have real costs: water and air pollution, climate change, and detrimental effects on human health, biodiversity, and natural habitats. Too little nitrogen limits ecosystem processes, while too much nitrogen transforms ecosystems profoundly.
 
The California Nitrogen Assessment is the first comprehensive account of nitrogen flows, practices, and policies for California, encompassing all nitrogen flows—not just those associated with agriculture—and their impacts on ecosystem services and human wellbeing. How California handles nitrogen issues will be of interest nationally and internationally, and the goal of the assessment is to link science with action and to produce information that affects both future policy and solutions for addressing nitrogen pollution. This book also provides a model for application of integrated ecosystem assessment methods at regional and state (subnational) levels.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.6.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: Agriscience • Air Pollution • air quality • biodiversity • Biodiversity conservation • california agriculture • californias nitrogen cycle • climate change • Climate Science • Ecology • Environmental Science • integrated ecosystem assessment • Life Sciences • nitrogen • nitrogen and climate change • nitrogen cycle • nitrogen emissions • nitrogen fertilizers • nitrogen flows • pollution california • scientists • use of nitrogen • water pollution california
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96223-0 / 0520962230
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96223-1 / 9780520962231