Search for tag: "nutrient pollution"
Economics of food systemsThis chapter focuses on how improvement in agriculture and nutrition can translate broadly into changes in rural livelihoods and standards of living, what can be done at the farm scale, versus the…
From SDG Academy
15 plays
|
|
Interference with Global Nitrogen and Phosphorous CyclesThis chapter discusses human impacts on the global nitrogen and phosphorus cycles that link the living and non-living parts of the Earth system. These chemical relationships control the general…
From SDG Academy
116 plays
|
|
Nutrient ManagementThis chapter discusses the mineral nutrition of crops. Plants use energy from the sun to fix carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in photosynthesis. The nutrient cycle of the soil is seen when bacteria…
From SDG Academy
21 plays
|
|
Introduction to Marine EcosystemsThe ocean is an intricate patchwork of co-existing ecosystems from which humans benefit in terms of food, energy, and keeping our planet habitable by regulating climate and absorbing nutrients from…
From SDG Academy
182 plays
|
|
Evolution and Marine BiodiversityMarine life adapts to the extreme and unique conditions deep in the ocean. Of the probably more than one million species in the oceans, at least four-fifths are completely unknown to science at the…
From SDG Academy
89 plays
|
|
Resilience and Adaptation in the OceanThis chapter looks at how marine ecosystems reacts to human pressure and the resilience of the system. Nutrient pollution is a problem in marine ecosystems because excess nutrients allow fast-growing…
From SDG Academy
22 plays
|
|
Ecosystem and Nutrient ManagementThis chapter presents a positive example of marine management with nutrient management in the Baltic Sea and shows that it is essential to have effective international treaties, sound scientific…
From SDG Academy
122 plays
|