Nutrients

Component is implemented in:

IMAGE land management model (version IMAGE land management 3.2) Components: Emissions Forest management Land cover and land use Land-use allocation Livestock systems Nutrients

Related IMAGE components

Agricultural economy Agriculture and land use Aquatic biodiversity Drivers Emissions Land cover and land use Land-use allocation Livestock systems

Projects/Applications

Roads from Rio+20 (2012) project Shared Socioeconomic Pathways - SSP (2014) project The Protein Puzzle (2011) project

Key publications

Beusen et al., 2015 Beusen et al., 2016 Beusen, 2014 Morée et al., 2013

References

Beusen et al., 2015 Beusen et al., 2016 Bouwman et al., 2013c Diaz and Rosenberg, 2008 Galloway et al., 2004 Rabalais, 2002 UNEP, 2002 Zhang et al., 2010

Flowchart Nutrients. See also the Input/Output Table on the introduction page.

Key policy issues

• How will the increasing use of fertilisers affect terrestrial and marine ecosystems, with possible consequences for human health?
• To what extent can the negative impacts be reduced by more efficient nutrient management and wastewater treatment, while retaining the positive effects on food production and land productivity?

Introduction