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A World of Cobenefits: Solving the Global Nitrogen Challenge
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Nitrogen is a critical component of the economy, food security, and planetary health. Many of the world's sustainability targets hinge on global nitrogen solutions, which, in turn, contribute lasting benefits for (i) world hunger; (ii) soil, air, and water quality; (iii) climate change mitigation; and (iv) biodiversity conservation. Balancing the projected rise in agricultural nitrogen demands while achieving these 21st century ideals will require policies to coordinate solutions among technologies, consumer choice, and socioeconomic transformation.
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“Increasing NUE in crops is a sustainable solution that not only maximizes yield potential in the face of increasing global food demands, but also would mitigate the economic and environmental impacts of fertilizer use (Houlton et al., 2019;He et al., 2021;Langholtz et al., 2021;Karunarathne et al., 2022).”
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“Furthermore, nitrogen fertilizers negatively impact aquatic ecosystems through nutrient runoff, and contaminate ground and drinking water (Houlton et al., 2019;Langholtz et al., 2021).”
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- Authors
- Houlton, B. Z., Almaraz, M., Aneja, V., Austin, A. T., Bai, E., Cassman, K. G., Compton, J. E., Davidson, E. A., Erisman, J. W., Galloway, J. N., Gu, B., Yao, G., Martinelli, L. A., Scow, K., Schlesinger, W. H., Tomich, T. P., Wang, C., & Zhang, X.
- Affiliations
- Institute of the Environment (US)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- North Carolina State University (US)
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (AR)
- Northeast Normal University (CN)
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln (US)
- Environmental Protection Agency (US)
- University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (US)
- Louis Bolk Instituut (NL)
- University of Virginia (US)
- Zhejiang University (CN)
- Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
- Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies (US)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Houlton, Benjamin Z.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Earth's Future
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 2019-08
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 865-872
- ISSN
- 2328-4277 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6733275
- OpenAlex
- W2963046423
- Cited by
- 212
- References
- 50
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 28 · 2022: 42 · 2021: 45 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 16.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Funders
- National Science Foundation (EAR‐1411368)
- Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of California (CA‐D‐LAW‐2178‐H)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Chemistry › Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Keywords
- nitrogen use efficiency, food security, soil quality, water quality, air quality, climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, sustainability policy, consumer choice, socio-economic change
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