Nitrogen Assessment
Pakistan as a Case-Study

A comprehensive assessment on nitrogen use in Pakistan that helps identify current efficiency issues and challenges to help improve its use in other regions

Tariq Aziz (Edited by), Abdul Wakeel (Edited by), Muhammad Watto (Edited by), Muhammad Ullah (Edited by), Muhammad Maqsood (Edited by), Aysha Kiran (Edited by)

9780128244173, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 24 November 2021

214 pages, 45 illustrations (20 in full color)
23.5 x 19 x 1.5 cm, 0.45 kg

Nitrogen Assessment: Pakistan as a Case-Study provides a detailed overview of issues and challenges related to nitrogen use and overuse, thus serving as a reference for researchers in Pakistan and providing important insights for other geographic regions. Excess and inefficient nitrogen use in crops and livestock sectors is polluting our rivers, seas, atmosphere, and ecosystems, contributing to climate change, hampering biodiversity, and contributing to stratospheric ozone depletion. This book covers the importance of nitrogen in relation to food security, human health, and economic stability in South Asia. It also discusses nitrogen status, sources, sinks, and drivers of nitrogen use in Pakistan, focusing on current nitrogen measures and policies.

Nitrogen pollution is one of the biggest challenges of 21st Century, and the international scientific community is beginning to recognize the significance of nitrogen pollution and to explore how to combat it. The editors’ institution, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, partners with South Asia Nitrogen Hub, which includes about 30 organizations from South Asia and UK working on nitrogen assessment, budgeting, awareness, and policy guidance, as well as possible measures to reduce nitrogen pollution.

Nitrogen Assessment: Pakistan as a Case-Study provides an important guide to this work and is written in a way that is accessible to an audience with a wide range of experience from advanced students to seasoned researchers.

Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1. Rethinking nitrogen use: need to plan beyond present
Tariq Aziz, Abdul Wakeel, Ahmad Naeem Shahzad, Robert Rees and Mark Sutton
2. Sources of nitrogen for crop growth: Pakistan’s case
Muhammad Aamer Maqsood, Naqsh-e-Zuhra, Imran Ashraf, Nasir Rasheed and Zia-ul-Hassan Shah
3. Nitrogen sinks in the agro-food system of Pakistan
Sajjad Raza, Muhammad Arif Watto, Annie Irshad, Muhammad Nasim and Xiaoning Zhao
4. Drivers of increased nitrogen use in Pakistan
Masood Iqbal Awan, Sajjad Raza, Amara Farooq, Allah Nawaz and Tariq Aziz
5. Trends in nitrogen use and development in Pakistan
Abdul Wakeel, Aysha Kiran, Muhammad Rizwan Shahid, Zunaira Bano and Munir Hussain Zia
6. Nitrogen emissions from agriculture sector in Pakistan: context, pathways, impacts and future projections
Muhammad Irfan and Nighat Hasnain
7. Nitrogen use efficiency in crop production: issues and challenges in South Asia
Bijay-Singh, Hafiz Muhammad Bilal and Tariq Aziz
8. Mitigation and actions toward nitrogen losses in Pakistan
Muhammad Sanaullah, Ahmad Mujtaba, Ghulam Haider, Hafeez ur Rehman and Fathia Mubeen
9. Pathways to sustainable nitrogen use and management in Pakistan
Muhammad Arif Watto, Tariq Aziz, Abdul Wakeel, Waqar Ahmad, Abdul Jalil Marwat and Munir Hussain Zia

Subject Areas: Agronomy & crop production [TVK], Agriculture & farming [TV], The environment [RN], Biochemistry [PSB], Ecological science, the Biosphere [PSAF], Agriculture & related industries [KNAC]