UK Centre for Ecology and Hyrdology (UKCEH) are the lead organisation in the South Asian Nitrogen Hub. They are an an independent, not-for-profit research institute. It has over 500 scientists who provide the data and insights that researchers, governments and businesses need to create a productive, resilient and healthy environment.
UKCEH is a member of the following work packages:
- 1.1
Mapping existing policies and government programmes in each country that relate to nitrogen and its impacts. Identifying key individuals and discovering more about the policy process
- 1.2
Investigating the consequences of reducing nitrogen pollution and how this will impact society, human well-being and the economy in the future. How choices made in other parts of the world affect South Asian decisions on nitrogen and vice versa is also explored
- 1.3
Surveys will investigate how farmers use nitrogen to better understand how they make decisions on nitrogen use with both crops and livestock. This will help make sure solutions to reduce pollution are socially and culturally acceptable
- 1.4
Creating a free-to-use app to help farmers make decisions on fertiliser and manure that allow it be used more efficiently
- 2.1a
Conduct experiments on different agricultural practices to discover what are the best ways to reduce pollution without compromising on growth, food quality or create other impacts
- 2.1b
Genetic research will be conducted to work out which genes in crops affect how well they use nitrogen so more nitrogen efficient crops, which create less waste, can be developed
- 2.2
Working closely with villages across South Asia, surveys will help determine the main cause of nitrogen waste as well as possible challenges in adopting different practices
- 2.3
Inspecting and developing technology to re-capture nitrogen pollution from gases and water streams and turning it into valuable products like fertilisers which can be used on farms
- 3.1
Examines how nitrogen air pollution affects lichen diversity and how this impacts local communities
- 3.2
Investigate how nitrogen pollution can intensify coral bleaching and stop reefs from recovering by comparing reefs at different distances from pollution sources
- 3.3
Focus on creating a Massive Open Online Course in the 8 national languages of the South Asian countries
- 4.1
Collating data and identifying gaps, bringing together many data sets in one place, to create detailed maps on nitrogen pollution in the atmosphere around South Asia. From this nitrogen budgets can be developed to help direct policy making
- 4.2
Monitoring and mapping air pollution to work out where the sources of nitrogen pollution are as well as predict how this may change in the future
- 4.3
This research focuses on understanding how nitrogen impacts as it flows through water ways from rivers to the ocean and model how this may change in the future. It also looks at how better waste water management could reduce pollution and ways we can increase water quality
- 4.4
Through modelling and mapping this work package explores how nitrogen pollution contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and how managing nitrogen can reduce climate change
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