J W Erisman

Biographic Data

ID32636
NAMEJ W Erisman
GIVEN NAMESJ W
FAMILY NAMEErisman
SIGNATUREERISMAN J W
AFFILIATIONSEnergy Research Centre of the Netherlands
ORCID0000-0001-5058-7012
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS104
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • Planting seeds or cultivating change? Digging into Living Labs’ contributions to transformative change

    Open AccessEva Sievers, J W Erisman et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2026References: 5

    Analysis of the potential and limitations of Living Labs in contributing to transformative change. • Featuring 10 Living Labs across diverse geographical settings, contexts, and key focus areas. • Living Labs foster shifts in views, support shifts in practices, but rarely shift structures. • Currently, Living Labs enable innovation but have limited ability to drive transformative change. • Institutional integration and long-term funding are key t…

  • Optimizing productive green roofs for urban food self-sufficiency in Amsterdam

    Open AccessPengxuan Xie, José M Mogollón et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2025

    Planting structure optimization for crop rotation planning problem is used. • Productive green roofs allocated spatially and temporally to diverse crop mixes. • Productive green roofs can meet 50–71 % of Amsterdam's food demand. • Lettuce-broccoli occupies the largest productive green roof areas of ∼100 ha. • Six vegetable types match well with the dietary requirements in Amsterdam. Fulfilling urban dietary demand often hinges on importing food f…

  • The use of living labs to advance agro-ecological theory in the transition towards sustainable land use: A tale of two polders

    Open AccessSuzanne M Marselis, Suzanne Marselis et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Impact Assessment…2024Cited by: 3References: 34

    Agricultural ecosystems worldwide are on life support. A key challenge is the translation of global sustainability goals to local contexts, particularly those related to sustainable land use, climate and biodiversity at the landscape scale. Living labs, place-based, focal areas as pilots of change, have the potential to be instrumental in driving the development of local solutions. When used to their full potential, they can both enable the advan…

  • Setting ambitious goals for agriculture to meet environmental targets

    Open AccessJ W ErismanARTICLEOne Earth2021

  • The nitrogen footprint of organic food in the United States

    Open AccessLaura Cattell Noll, Allison M Leach et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    We estimated the reactive nitrogen (Nr) lost per unit food Nr consumed for organic food production in the United States and compared it to conventional production. We used a nitrogen footprint model approach, which accounts for both differences in Nr losses as well as differences in productivity of the two systems. Additionally, we quantified the types of Nr inputs (new versus recycled) that are used in both production systems. We estimated Nr lo…

  • Global, regional and national trends of atmospheric ammonia derived from a decadal (2008–2018) satellite record

    Open AccessMartin Van Damme, Lieven Clarisse et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Excess atmospheric ammonia (NH 3 ) leads to deleterious effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, air quality and health, and it is therefore essential to monitor its budget and temporal evolution. Hyperspectral infrared satellite sounders provide daily NH 3 observations at global scale for over a decade. Here we use the version 3 of the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) NH 3 dataset to derive global, regional and national trends fro…

  • Land use mediates riverine nitrogen export under the dominant influence of human activities

    Open AccessBinhui Chen, Scott X Chang et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    Riverine nitrogen (N) export is a crucial process that links upstream and downstream ecosystems and coastal zones. However, the driving forces of riverine N export that is closely related to water N pollution are still not well understood. In this study, we used a mass balance approach to quantify the sources of N discharge and analyzed the effect of land use composition on riverine N export, taking Zhejiang Province, China as a case study. We fo…

  • Cleaning up nitrogen pollution may reduce future carbon sinks

    Open AccessBaojing Gu, Xiaotang Ju et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2017Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Nitrogen footprints: Regional realities and options to reduce nitrogen loss to the environment

    Open AccessHideaki Shibata, James N Galloway et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2017Cited by: 1References: 39

    Nitrogen (N) management presents a sustainability dilemma: N is strongly linked to energy and food production, but excess reactive N causes environmental pollution. The N footprint is an indicator that quantifies reactive N losses to the environment from consumption and production of food and the use of energy. The average per capita N footprint (calculated using the N-Calculator methodology) of ten countries varies from 15 to 47 kg N capita−1 ye…

  • Environmental impact food labels combining carbon, nitrogen, and water footprints

    Open AccessAllison M Leach, Kyle A Emery et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2016Cited by: 16References: 8

  • Potential of extensification of European agriculture for a more sustainable food system, focusing on nitrogen

    Open AccessHans J M van Grinsven, J W Erisman et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    Most global strategies for future food security focus on sustainable intensification of production of food and involve increased use of nitrogen fertilizer and manure. The external costs of current high nitrogen (N) losses from agriculture in the European Union, are 0.3-1.9% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2008. We explore the potential of sustainable extensification for agriculture in the EU and The Netherlands by analysing cases and scenario…

  • Down to Earth: Contextualizing the Anthropocene

    Open AccessFelix Biermann, Frank Biermann et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2015Cited by: 55References: 18

    The ‘Anthropocene’ is now being used as a conceptual frame by different communities and in a variety of contexts to understand the evolving human–environment relationship. However, as we argue in this paper, the notion of an Anthropos, or ‘humanity’, as global, unified ‘geological force’ threatens to mask the diversity and differences in the actual conditions and impacts of humankind, and does not do justice to the diversity of local and regional…

  • International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and Earth system science: Three decades of co-evolution

    Open AccessSybil P Seitzinger, Owen Gaffney et al.ARTICLEAnthropocene2015Cited by: 11References: 75

  • Nitrogen footprints: Past, present and future

    Open AccessJames N Galloway, Wilfried Winiwarter et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2014

    The human alteration of the N cycle has evolved from minimal in the mid-19th century, to extensive in the present time. The consequences on human and environment health are significant. While much attention has been given to the extent and impacts of the alteration, little attention has been given to those entities (i.e., consumers, institutions) that use the resources that result in extensive reactive nitrogen (Nr) creation. This paper reviews a…

  • Chinese coastal seas are facing heavy atmospheric nitrogen deposition

    Open AccessXiaojin Luo, X S Luo et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2014

    As the amount of reactive nitrogen (N) generated and emitted increases the amount of N deposition and its contribution to eutrophication or harmful algal blooms in the coastal zones are becoming issues of environmental concern. To quantify N deposition in coastal seas of China we selected six typical coastal sites from North to South in 2011. Concentrations of NH _3 , HNO _3 , NO _2 , particulate NH _4 ^+ (pNH _4 ^+ ) and pNO _3 ^− ranged from 1.…

  • Consequences of human modification of the global nitrogen cycle

    Open AccessJ W Erisman, James N Galloway et al.ARTICLEPhilosophical Transactions of the…2013

    The demand for more food is increasing fertilizer and land use, and the demand for more energy is increasing fossil fuel combustion, leading to enhanced losses of reactive nitrogen (N r ) to the environment. Many thresholds for human and ecosystem health have been exceeded owing to N r pollution, including those for drinking water (nitrates), air quality (smog, particulate matter, ground-level ozone), freshwater eutrophication, biodiversity loss,…

  • A nitrogen footprint model to help consumers understand their role in nitrogen losses to the environment

    Open AccessAllison M Leach, James N Galloway et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Development2012

  • Too much of a good thing

    Open AccessMatthew Avery Sutton, Mark A Sutton et al.ARTICLENature2011

  • Reactive nitrogen in the environment and its effect on climate change

    Open AccessJ W Erisman, James N Galloway et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2011Cited by: 7References: 2

  • A Carbon Cycle Science Update Since IPCC AR-4

    Open AccessA J Dolman, Guido R van der Werf et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2010References: 66

  • How a century of ammonia synthesis changed the world

    Open AccessJ W Erisman, Matthew Avery Sutton et al.ARTICLENature Geoscience2008

  • Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions

    Open AccessJames N Galloway, Alan R Townsend et al.ARTICLEScience2008

    Humans continue to transform the global nitrogen cycle at a record pace, reflecting an increased combustion of fossil fuels, growing demand for nitrogen in agriculture and industry, and pervasive inefficiencies in its use. Much anthropogenic nitrogen is lost to air, water, and land to cause a cascade of environmental and human health problems. Simultaneously, food production in some parts of the world is nitrogen-deficient, highlighting inequitie…

  • Nonlinearities in Source Receptor Relationships for Sulfur and Nitrogen Compounds

    David Fowler, Jennifer Muller et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2005References: 14

    The relationship between emissions and deposition of air pollutants, both spatially and in time forms an important focus for science and for policy makers. In practice, this relationship may become nonlinear if the underlying processes change with time, or in space. Nonlinearities may also appear due to errors in emission or deposition data, and careful scrutiny of both data sources and their relationship provides a means of picking up such defic…

  • Nonlinearities in Source Receptor Relationships for Sulfur and Nitrogen Compounds

    David Fowler, Jennifer Muller et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2005Cited by: 1

    The relationship between emissions and deposition of air pollutants, both spatially and in time forms an important focus for science and for policy makers. In practice, this relationship may become nonlinear if the underlying processes change with time, or in space. Nonlinearities may also appear due to errors in emission or deposition data, and careful scrutiny of both data sources and their relationship provides a means of picking up such defic…

  • The Nitrogen Cascade

    James N Galloway, J D Aber et al.ARTICLEBioScience2003

    Human production of food and energy is the dominant continental process that breaks the triple bond in molecular nitrogen (N 2 ) and creates reactive nitrogen (Nr) species. Circulation of anthropogenic Nr in Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere has a wide variety of consequences, which are magnified with time as Nr moves along its biogeochemical pathway. The same atom of Nr can cause multiple effects in the atmosphere, in terrestrial ec…