The California Nitrogen Assessment : Challenges and Solutions for People, Agriculture, and the Environment / Thomas P. Tomich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tomich, Thomas P., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nitrogen--Environmental aspects--California.

Nitrogen.

Nitrogen cycle--Environmental aspects--California.

Nitrogen cycle.

Nitrogen fertilizers--Government policy--California.

Nitrogen fertilizers.

Biodiversity conservation--California.

Biodiversity conservation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ONLINE APPENDICES

LIST OF BOXES

LIST OF FIGURES

LIST OF TABLES

LIST OF MAPS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

MEMBERS OF THE TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

MEMBERS OF THE STAKEHOLDER ADVISORY COMMITTEE

LIST OF REVIEW EDITORS

LIST OF SCIENTIFIC REVIEWERS

COMMON ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

CHEMICAL FORMULAS

1. Introducing the California Nitrogen Assessment

2. Underlying drivers of nitrogen flows in California

3. Direct drivers of California's nitrogen cycle

4. A California nitrogen mass balance for 2005

5. Ecosystem Services and human well-being

6. Scenarios for the future of nitrogen management in California agriculture

7. Responses: Technologies and practices

8. Responses: Policies and institutions

REFERENCES

INDEX

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."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520962231

0520962230

OCLC:

947838146