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Overview

Carolien Kroeze is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research focuses on environmental science, with a significant number of publications centered on environmental chemistry, water science and technology, pollution, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and ecology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics

Carolien Kroeze has published multiple recent papers, including:

  • "Accounting for interactions between Sustainable Development Goals is essential for water pollution control in China" (2022) in Nature Communications
  • "Urbanization: an increasing source of multiple pollutants to rivers in the 21st century" (2021) in npj Urban Sustainability
  • "River export of macro- and microplastics to seas by sources worldwide" (2023) in Nature Communications
  • "Impacts of nitrogen pollution on corals in the context of global climate change and potential strategies to conserve coral reefs" (2021) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Multi-pollutant assessment of river pollution from livestock production worldwide" (2021) in Water Research

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • The Science of The Total Environment (9 publications)
  • Environmental Science & Technology (7 publications)
  • Water Research (4 publications)
  • Journal of Environmental Management (4 publications)
  • Resources Conservation and Recycling (3 publications)

Collaborations form an essential part of their work, with frequent co-authors including Maryna Strokal, Lin Ma, Mengru Wang, Fusuo Zhang, and Zhaohai Bai.

In addition to articles, Carolien Kroeze has contributed to book publications, such as a work published by UNESCO in 2021 titled "Understanding nutrient loading and sources in the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem."

Best Publications

  • Closing the global N2O budget: nitrous oxide emissions through the agricultural nitrogen cycle

    A. Mosier;C. Kroeze;C. Nevison;O. Oenema

  • Global river nutrient export: A scenario analysis of past and future trends

    S. P. Seitzinger;E. Mayorga;E. Mayorga;A. F. Bouwman;A. F. Bouwman;C. Kroeze;C. Kroeze

  • Global distribution of nitrous oxide production and N inputs in freshwater and coastal marine ecosystems

    Sybil P. Seitzinger;Carolien Kroeze

  • The global nitrous oxide budget revisited

    Alfi Syakila;Carolien Kroeze

  • Closing the global N2O budget: A retrospective analysis 1500–1994

    Carolien Kroeze;Arvin Mosier;Lex Bouwman

  • Global Nutrient Export from WaterSheds 2 (NEWS 2): Model development and implementation

    Emilio Mayorga;Sybil P. Seitzinger;John A. Harrison;Egon Dumont

  • Export of microplastics from land to sea. A modelling approach.

    Max Siegfried;Albert A. Koelmans;Ellen Besseling;Carolien Kroeze

  • Assessing environmental performance by combining life cycle assessment, multi-criteria analysis and environmental performance indicators

    B.G. Hermann;C. Kroeze;W. Jawjit;W. Jawjit

  • Accounting for interactions between Sustainable Development Goals is essential for water pollution control in China

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  • Assessing planetary and regional nitrogen boundaries related to food security and adverse environmental impacts

    Wim de Vries;Johannes Kros;Carolien Kroeze;Sybil P Seitzinger

  • Global Patterns of Dissolved Inorganic and Particulate Nitrogen Inputs to Coastal Systems: Recent Conditions and Future Projections

    S. P. Seitzinger;C. Kroeze;A. F. Bouwman;N. Caraco

  • Past and future trends in grey water footprints of anthropogenic nitrogen and phosphorus inputs to major world rivers

    Cheng Liu;Carolien Kroeze;Carolien Kroeze;Arjen Y. Hoekstra;Winnie Gerbens-Leenes

  • Closing the global atmospheric N2O budget: nitrous oxide emissions through the agricultural nitrogen cycle. (OECD/IPCC/IEA Phase II Development of IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories).

    A. Mosier;C. Kroeze;C. Nevison;O. Oenema

  • Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories : Chapter 4. Agriculture

    C. Kroeze;A. Mosier;C. Nevison;O. Oenema

  • Global distribution of N2O emissions from aquatic systems: natural emissions and anthropogenic effects

    Sybil P Seitzinger;Carolien Kroeze;Renée V Styles

  • Water pollution by intensive brackish shrimp farming in south-east Vietnam: Causes and options for control

    Pham Thi Anh;Carolien Kroeze;Simon R. Bush;Arthur P.J. Mol

  • Urbanization: an increasing source of multiple pollutants to rivers in the 21st century

    Maryna Strokal;Zhaohai Bai;Wietse Franssen;Nynke Hofstra

  • Global distribution and sources of dissolved inorganic nitrogen export to the coastal zone: Results from a spatially explicit, global model

    E.L. Dumont;J.A. Harrison;C. Kroeze;E.J. Bakker

  • Modelling global river export of microplastics to the marine environment: Sources and future trends

    Jikke van Wijnen;Ad M.J. Ragas;Carolien Kroeze

  • Alarming nutrient pollution of Chinese rivers as a result of agricultural transitions

    Maryna Strokal;Lin Ma;Zhaohai Bai;Shengji Luan

  • Increasing eutrophication in the coastal seas of China from 1970 to 2050

    Maryna Strokal;He Yang;Yinchen Zhang;Carolien Kroeze;Carolien Kroeze

  • Millennium Ecosystem Assessment scenario drivers (1970–2050): Climate and hydrological alterations

    Balázs M. Fekete;Dominik Wisser;Carolien Kroeze;Carolien Kroeze;Emilio Mayorga

Frequent Co-Authors

Maryna Strokal
Maryna Strokal Wageningen University & Research
Lin Ma
Lin Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sybil P. Seitzinger
Sybil P. Seitzinger University of Victoria
Oene Oenema
Oene Oenema Wageningen University & Research
Zhaohai Bai
Zhaohai Bai Chinese Academy of Sciences
Alexander F. Bouwman
Alexander F. Bouwman Utrecht University
Albert A. Koelmans
Albert A. Koelmans Wageningen University & Research
Arvin R. Mosier
Arvin R. Mosier University of Melbourne
Yoshihide Wada
Yoshihide Wada King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Simon J. Langan
Simon J. Langan International Water Management Institute

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