5th International Nitrogen Conference
Date: 21 December 2009
5th International Nitrogen Conference “Reactive Nitrogen Management for Sustainable Development – Science, Technology and Policy" (3–7 December 2010, New Delhi, India)
GAW-related Meetings in 2008
Global nitrogen cycle represents one of the most important nutrient cycles that sustain life on earth. Today, humans add 1.5 times more nitrogen than the natural terrestrial processes combined together through a combination of agriculture and fossil fuel use, and unduly influence the global nitrogen cycle. The consequences are profound for the health of both ecosystems and humans. The challenge presented by changing nitrogen cycle remains under appreciated in both policy and scientific circles, but already observed impacts of such changes on biodiversity, climate and human health provide compelling reasons to exploit more fully options for nitrogen management and policies.
The complex problems of reactive N management in a sustainable manner cannot be tackled individually, but rather the solutions must engage a large community that encompasses a broad spectrum of professionals. For N2010, the main theme is "Reactive Nitrogen Management for Sustainable Development: Science, Technology and Policy”. We are inviting not only participants concerned with particular aspects of N cycling, from all the disciplines of natural and applied sciences and engineering but also participants from the policy, development, and social communities. The N2010 meeting is the perfect venue to discuss these issues and consolidate the beneficial role of reactive nitrogen and to find common ground to answers and solutions to alleviate world hunger with minimal environmental harm. N2010 will endure in furtherance of agenda for better management of nitrogen across the globe started in the previous four International Nitrogen Conferences organised since 1998.
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