Nitrogen Pollution: Food Security and Sustainable Development
David Kanter
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About the talk
David will discuss the significance of nutrient pollution in climate change, and the feedback mechanisms that such pollution creates, including adversely affecting all agriculture. He will start with the general issues and move on to discuss how policies, government and others, can be influenced to implement better strategies for reducing this problem. This is a very serious issue, and one which does not have the widespread recognition needed to mitigate it.
About the speaker
David Kanter is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU. His research examines the interconnected challenges of nitrogen pollution, food security and sustainable development, with a particular focus on the scientific, socioeconomic and legal dimensions of returning to a safe planetary boundary for nitrogen, and on balancing the multiple, often competing objectives of sustainable agriculture — from environmental protection to human wellbeing. Prior to NYU, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Earth Institute at Columbia University. He received his B.Sc. in Chemistry and Law from the University of Bristol and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy from Princeton. He was introduced to Science Plus by Janos Mate, who worked with him at Greenpeace.
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