The California nitrogen assessment : : challenges and solutions for people, agriculture, and the environment / / edited by Thomas P. Tomich [and three others].
"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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| Place / Publishing House: | Oakland, California : : University of California Press,, [2016] 2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (341 pages) :; illustrations, maps |
| Notes: | "Collaborating Institutions: Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis, UC ANR Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, UC ANR Kearney Foundation of Soil Science, UC ANR Agricultural Issues Center, UC ANR California Institute for Water Resources, Water Science and Policy Center at UC Riverside." |
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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.