Sustainable Phosphorus Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Sustainable Phosphorus Management: A Transdisciplinary Challenge

   • Roland W. Scholz, Amit H. Roy, Deborah T. Hellums

   Pages 1-128

3. Exploration: What Reserves and Resources?

   • David A. Vaccari, Michael Mew, Roland W. Scholz, Friedrich-Wilhelm Wellmer

   Pages 129-151

4. Mining and Concentration: What Mining to What Costs and Benefits?

   • Ingrid Watson, Peter van Straaten, Tobias Katz, Louw Botha

   Pages 153-182

5. Processing: What Improvements for What Products?

   • Ludwig Hermann, Willem Schipper, Kees Langeveld, Armin Reller

   Pages 183-206

6. Use: What is Needed to Support Sustainability?

   • Robert L. Mikkelsen, Claudia R. Binder, Emmanuel Frossard, Fridolin S. Brand, Roland W. Scholz, Ulli Vilsmaier

   Pages 207-246

7. Dissipation and Recycling: What Losses, What Dissipation Impacts, and What Recycling Options?

   • Masaru Yarime, Cynthia Carliell-Marquet, Deborah T. Hellums, Yuliya Kalmykova, Daniel J. Lang, Quang Bao Le et al.

   Pages 247-274

8. Trade and Finance as Cross-Cutting Issues in the Global Phosphate and Fertilizer Market

   • Olaf Weber, Jacques Delince, Yayun Duan, Luc Maene, Tim McDaniels, Michael Mew et al.

   Pages 275-299

9. Erratum to: Sustainable Phosphorus Management: A Transdisciplinary Challenge

   • Roland W. Scholz, Amit H. Roy, Deborah T. Hellums

   Pages E1-E3

This book describes a pathway for sustainable phosphorus management via the Global Transdisciplinary Processes for Sustainable Phosphorus Management project (Global TraPs). Global TraPs is a multi-stakeholder forum in which scientists from a variety of disciplines join with key actors in practice to jointly identify critical questions and to articulate what new knowledge, technologies and policy processes are needed to ensure that future phosphorus use is sustainable, improves food security and environmental quality and provides benefits for the poor. The book offers insight into economic scarcity and identifies options to improve efficiency and reduce environmental impacts of anthropogenic phosphorus flows at all stages of the supply and use chain.

• environmental impacts
• food security
• supply-demand chain analysis
• sustainable phosphorus management
• transdisciplinary process

From the book reviews:

“This book, edited by Scholz (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) et al., is the product of an international project related to phosphorus supply, management, use, and dissipation. … The book is well documented with many good citations and references and provides a valuable review of what is known about this important element. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (L. E. Erickson, Choice, Vol. 52 (5), January, 2015)

• Inst. Material Recycling & Resources Strategies, Fraunhofer IWKS, Alzenau, Germany

  Roland W. Scholz

• International Fertilizer Development Cen, Muscle Shoals, USA

  Amit H. Roy, Deborah T. Hellums

• ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

  Fridolin S. Brand

• ETH Zürich Institute for Environmental Decisions, Zürich, Switzerland

  Andrea E. Ulrich

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