Substantial nitrogen pollution embedded in international trade

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 111-115

  Oita, Azusa ^a,b   Malik, Arunima ^a   Kanemoto, Keiichiro ^a,c   Geschke, Arne ^a   Nishijima, Shota ^b   Lenzen, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DEVELOPING WORLD; EMISSION INVENTORY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROUS OXIDE;

BRAZIL; CHINA; INDIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84957065925     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2635     Document Type: Article

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