European Nitrogen Assessment

As the major outcome of the ESF Nitrogen in Europe (or NinE) programme, the European Nitrogen Assessment (ENA in short) will address current nitrogen issues, the cascade effects and the interactions and feedbacks. The ENA provides valuable insight for governments and other stakeholders in the balance between the benefits of fixed nitrogen to society, against the different adverse effects of excess nitrogen in the environment.

Structure of the ENA

The ENA represents a process of scientific and policy synthesis that will provide a major review of the role of excess nitrogen on environmental problems. Based on analysis of the problems and interactions, the review will explore the potential to establish integrated solutions and better communicate the implications to society.

The ENA report will have 5 major Sections, with 26 chapters. Each chapter will be written by leading international experts, comprising of Lead and Contributing Authors. Under the editorship of the Coordination Team, each chapter will be submitted to international peer review. The early chapters of the ENA report will be developed first, gradually building the understanding of integration, which will feed into development of the later chapters.

The ENA process will contribute to bringing the different research and policy communities together, so that later chapters can be more synthetic across scales and issues. The general approach will use workshops funded through NinE to develop groups of chapters. Relevant international experts will be invited by the Coordination Team to lead the preparation of background documents, which will be presented to these workshops. The workshops will be openly advertised through the ENA web portal (hosted by the NinE project). Similarly, the workshop reports will be disseminated through the ENA web portal, being open for interested parties to send comments to Lead Authors and/or the Coordination Team.

Approval for funding of the planned and future workshops will remain under the decision of the NinE Management Committee, each of whom is also a member of the ENA Advisory Group.

More information about the ENA

More information about the ENA can be found in this ENA Flyer. If you want to get involved in the ENA process, you first of all have to register to this site. During the login procedure, please select the 'ENA group'. You will then get access to a restricted ENA area on this site, where more information will become available when available. Registration for the different planned ENA workshops will also be possible from that area in the coming months.