Environmental Research Letters

_{Focus on Environmental Footprint Tools for Sustainability}

Guest Editors

Allison M Leach University of New Hampshire, USA
James N Galloway University of Virginia, USA
Jana Compton Environmental Protection Agency, USA

Scope

Understanding and reducing the environmental impact of consumers—who are key decision-makers and stakeholders—crucial to increasing the sustainability and resilience of our communities. Environmental footprint tools connect consumers’ everyday resource consumption with the environmental pressure from those choices. Tools have been developed for different issues of environmental concern (e.g. carbon emissions, nitrogen losses, freshwater consumption, land use, phosphorus losses) and for multiple levels of consumers (e.g. individuals, institutions, watersheds, communities). In this special issue, we will focus on nitrogen footprint tools but we welcome submissions on other footprint research as well.

Provincial nitrogen footprints highlight variability in drivers of reactive nitrogen emissions in Canada

· Sibeal McCourt and Graham K MacDonald 2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 095007

Calculation of a food consumption nitrogen footprint for Germany

· Laura Klement et al 2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 075005

Virtual nitrogen and virtual water transfers embedded in food trade networks across the US

· Tasnuva Mahjabin et al 2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 045015

Comparison of food supply system in China and Japan based on food nitrogen footprints estimated by a top-down method

· Junko Shindo et al 2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 045003

Identifying and assessing effectiveness of alternative low-effort nitrogen footprint reductions in small research institutions

· Sarah Messenger et al 2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 035014

Nitrogen loss to the environment due to various nitrogen-use efficiencies during milk and beef production in Japan

· Akinori Mori et al 2020 Environ. Res. Lett. 15 125007