@InProceedings{CunhaZeriOmet:2018:ImDrPo,
               author = "Cunha Zeri, Gisleine da Silva and Ometto, Jean Pierre Henry 
                         Balbaud",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Nitrogen emissions in Latin America: impacts, drivers, and policy 
                         response",
                 year = "2018",
         organization = "AGU Fall Meeting",
             abstract = "The lack of Information on the nitrogen cycle in Latin America is 
                         a serious impediment to provide a proper evaluation and projection 
                         on how human activity is altering nitrogen pools and turnover at 
                         regional and global scales. In the scope of the Nitrogen Human 
                         Environment Network (Nnet Project), we propose a conceptual 
                         framework of nitrogen emissions drivers in Latin America to 
                         understand the complexity of nitrogen dynamics in the region, the 
                         diverse drivers and impacts on human health. Besides, the 
                         conceptual framework emphasizes the crucial role of political 
                         decisions and institutional forcefulness in providing and 
                         implementing appropriate mechanisms to deal with the benefits 
                         versus costs situation of nitrogen use. Some questions are 
                         discussed under the current socio-economic status of Latin 
                         American countries: (i) What factors are responsible for the 
                         increasing of emissions from nitrogen use? (ii) Is population 
                         growth the ultimate cause for the continuous expansion of Nr 
                         emissions? (iii) Are there other factors influencing this 
                         presumable foremost cause? (iv) What is the role of government 
                         institutions in provoking this situation and finally in 
                         controlling and reversing this trend? Finally, we provided a wide 
                         survey to search for nitrogen in current Latin American policies, 
                         specifically in the Nnet Project case-study countries. At large, 
                         all countries have reported general measures and mechanisms to 
                         deal with nitrogen, but only as a greenhouse gas (N2O). Specific 
                         and/or unified policies dealing directly with N emissions were not 
                         observed; however, some isolated measures with linkages to 
                         nitrogen have been considered in the legislation of some 
                         countries.",
  conference-location = "Washington, D. C.",
      conference-year = "10-14 dec.",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "AGU 2018_abstract 455157_B13A-06_Gisleine CUNHA ZERI.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "12 maio 2024"
}