The Indian Nitrogen Assessment

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.

Autorentext
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. 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.

Inhalt

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