Title: Engaging stakeholders in sustainable phosphorus management
	DOI: 10.7923/DW3H-V405

Description/Abstract: While phosphorus is an essential nutrient for life and largely drives crop yields in our agricultural and food systems, its inefficient management is resulting in water pollution and ecological damage. Sustainable solutions to manage phosphorus in agricultural production and society will require interdisciplinary approaches. Such interdisciplinary approaches will need to rely on effective means to communicate and collaborate with a range of stakeholders in order to ensure that new technologies and management solutions address stakeholder needs and wants and can ultimately be adopted. A new NSF-funded Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability, or STEPS, Center is guided by a long-term vision of a 25% reduction in mined phosphates, and 25% reduction in phosphorus losses to soils and water, within a 25 year time span. To realize this vision, the Center includes a stakeholder engagement component to interact with and engage external stakeholders through formalized processes, including collaborative efforts between STEPS researchers and stakeholders to develop and co-create solutions to improve phosphorus sustainability. These solutions will ultimately reduce our dependence on mined phosphates, through improved efficiencies to better utilize and reuse phosphorus from wastes, as well as reduce phosphorus losses to the environment through the development of new materials and technologies to create more sustainable systems.

**Resource Use**:
*License*: [CC-BY](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)    	          
*Recommended Citation*:	Grieger, K. (2022). Engaging stakeholders in sustainable phosphorus management. University of Idaho. https://doi.org/10.7923/DW3H-V405

Resource URL: https://data.nkn.uidaho.edu/dataset/engaging-stakeholders-sustainable-phosphorus-management

Creator(s):	
	1. Full Name: Khara Grieger
		Unique identifier: ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0821-0534
		Affiliation(s): North Carolina State University

Other Contributor(s): 
	ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9182-0957
		Full Name: Jacob L. Jones
		Affiliation(s): North Carolina State University
		Role: Project Director

Publisher: Univeristy of Idaho

Publication Year: 2022
	
Language(s): American English

Subject(s):
	1.3 Physical sciences
	1.5 Earth and related Environmental sciences
	2.5 Materials engineering 
	2.11 Other engineering and technologies 
	4.1 Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries
	5.4 Sociology 
	5.9 Other social sciences
	
Keywords/Tags: stakeholder engagement; phosphorus; sustainability

Resource Type General: Audiovisual
		
Dates: 2022-05-11

Date available for the public: 2022-05-19 

Sizes: 11.4MB
 
Format(s): mp4
 
Version: NULL

Funding References: 
	Funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant No. CBET-2019435, Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability Center.
 
Spatial/Geographical Coverage Location: 
	Study Area Description: USA
	 
Temporal Coverage: 
	Start Data: 2016-09-30
	End Date: 2021-10-01
 
Granularity of the Data: NULL
 
Contact Info: 
	Contact Name: Khara Grieger
	Contact Email: kdgriege@ncsu.edu
 
Related Content: 
	EngageINFEWS Lightning Talks 2022 - https://data.nkn.uidaho.edu/story/engageinfews-lightning-talks-2022	
	STEPS Homepage - https://steps-center.org/