Nitrogen footprint in China: Food, energy, and nonfood goods

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 9217-9224

  Gu, Baojing ^a,b   Leach, Allison M ^c   Ma, Lin ^d,e   Galloway, James N ^c   Chang, Scott X ^f   Ge, Ying ^a,b   Chang, Jie ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LARGE DATA; MASS BALANCE; NITROGEN FOOTPRINTS; PER CAPITA; POLICY MAKERS; PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

NITROGEN;

NITROGEN;

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOOD SECURITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; POLICY MAKING;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHINA; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MASS; NON-FOOD CROP;

CHINA;

AGRICULTURE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENT; INDUSTRY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE;

EID: 84882684225     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es401344h     Document Type: Article

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