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The Indian Nitrogen Assessment

Sources of Reactive Nitrogen, Environmental and Climate Effects, Management Options, and Policies

  • 1st Edition - August 14, 2017
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Yash P. Abrol, Tapan K. Adhya, Viney P. Aneja, N. Raghuram, Himanshu Pathak, Umesh Kulshrestha, Chhemendra Sharma, Bijay Singh
  • Language: English

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Description

The Indian Nitrogen Assessment: Sources of Reactive Nitrogen, Environmental and Climate Effects, and Management Options and Policies provides a reference for anyone interested in Reactive N, from researchers and students, to environmental managers. Although the main processes that affect the N cycle are well known, this book is focused on the causes and effects of disruption in the N cycle, specifically in India.

The book helps readers gain a precise understanding of the scale of nitrogen use, misuse, and release through various agricultural, industrial, vehicular, and other activities, also including discussions on its contribution to the pollution of water and air. Drawing upon the collective work of the Indian Nitrogen Group, this reference book helps solve the challenges associated with providing reliable estimates of nitrogen transfers within different ecosystems, also presenting the next steps that should be taken in the development of balanced, cost-effective, and feasible strategies to reduce the amount of reactive nitrogen.

Key features

  • Identifies all significant sources of reactive nitrogen flows and their contribution to the nitrogen-cycle on a national, regional, and global level
  • Covers nitrogen management across sectors, including the environment, food security, energy, and health
  • Provides a single reference on reactive nitrogen in India to help in a number of activities, including the evaluation, analysis, synthesis, documentation, and communications on reactive nitrogen

Readership

Earth scientists, Environmental scientists, Agricultural scientists, Ecologists, Environmental chemists, Anthropologists, Engineers

Table of contents

1. Reactive N assessment: What is its significance

2. N fertilizer production and consumption: Indian scenario

3. Nitrogen processes in agricultural ecosystems

4. Nitrogen and crop production in India

5. Nitrogen Budget of Intensively cultivated Cropping systems in original Green revolution states of India

6. Efficient nitrogen management under predominant cropping systems in India

7. Nitrogen and crop quality

8. Plant nitrogen use efficiency

9. Nitrogen and soil quality

10. BNF contribution to reactive N: Indian scenario

11. Biological Nitrogen Fixation in India: Trend Line on Budget and scientific developments

12. Reactive N in Indian grasslands

13. Nitrogen in Agro-forestry of India

14. Reactive N in horticultural crops

15. Reactive N: Soil, animal and environment interface

16. Biological Nitrogen Fixation in India: Trend Line on Budget and scientific developments

17. Reactive N in Indian grasslands

18. Nitrogen in Agro-forestry of India

19. Reactive N in horticultural crops

20. Reactive N: Soil, animal and environment interface

21. Atmospheric Nr assessment in Indian region

22. Reactive N and water quality

23. Nitrates in Groundwater

24. N assessment in surface waters of India

25. N-oxides and cardiovascular disease

26. Nitrate toxicity in humans: an Indian scenario

27. Nitrogen in aquaculture and fisheries

28. Nitrogen and poultry production

29. Food choice and reactive N content in Indian region

30. Nitrogen and climate change

31. Nitrogen oxides and air quality

32. Reactive N dynamics in mangroves of India

33. Nitrogen processes in Indian coastal ecosystem

34. Nitrogen in coastal and oceanic systems

35. Nitrogen and natural ecosystems

36. Emission of reactive N from waste sector

37. N and Energy sector

38. Reactive N and policy issues

39. Nitrogen scenario of India – A futuristic assessment

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 24, 2017
  • Language: English

About the editors

YA

Yash P. Abrol

Prof. Y.P. Abrol, President ING-SCON (Indian Nitrogen Group), Former Head of the Division of Plant Physiology at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Hamdard University, India. Professor Abrol’s exhaustive Analysis on nitrogen fertilizer use contributed significantly to the 'understanding of the 'regulation of nitrate assimilation'. Professor Abrol worked out a complete N balance sheet of wheat and barley, which formed the basis for understanding and recommendation for optimal utilization of Nitrogen. He published more than 150 research papers and several review papers in different Indian/International Journals, and also edited 15 volumes of publication in various fields relating to agricultural and plant studies.
Affiliations and expertise
Society for Conservation of Nature, New Delhi, India

TA

Tapan K. Adhya

Professor T.K. Adhya has research interest in the area of environmental microbiology and sustainable agriculture with emphasis on greenhouse gas emission, nitrogen nutrition and microbial diversity analysis, with flooded rice soil as the model ecosystem. Tapan has published more than 140 original research papers in leading national and international journals and authored more than 27 chapters in books published by established national and international publishing houses. He is also the author/coauthor of several international reports published by UNEP, Nairobi, SACEP, Colombo, WRI, USA, FAO, Rome and ISRIC, Netherlands.
Affiliations and expertise
KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India

VA

Viney P. Aneja

Affiliations and expertise
North Carolina State University, USA

NR

N. Raghuram

Affiliations and expertise
GGS Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India

HP

Himanshu Pathak

Affiliations and expertise
National Rice Research Instt, Cuttack, India

UK

Umesh Kulshrestha

Affiliations and expertise
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India

CS

Chhemendra Sharma

Affiliations and expertise
National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India

BS

Bijay Singh

Affiliations and expertise
Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India

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