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- Provides a comprehensive, supply-demand chain-based analysis of phosphorus flows, use, trade and finance, developed during a two-year transdisciplinary process
- Describes options for improving phosphorus management in exploration, mining, dissipation and recycling
- Identifies case studies and proposes a research agenda for critical questions of sustainable phosphorus management
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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“This book, edited by Scholz (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) et al., is the product of an international project related to phosphorus supply, management, use, and dissipation. … The book is well documented with many good citations and references and provides a valuable review of what is known about this important element. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (L. E. Erickson, Choice, Vol. 52 (5), January, 2015)Editors and Affiliations
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Book Title: Sustainable Phosphorus Management
Book Subtitle: A Global Transdisciplinary Roadmap
Editors: Roland W. Scholz, Amit H. Roy, Fridolin S. Brand, Deborah T. Hellums, Andrea E. Ulrich
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7250-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7249-6Published: 27 March 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0246-9Published: 30 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7250-2Published: 12 March 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 299
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Soil Science & Conservation, Earth Sciences, general