Nitrogen-relevant policies from South Asia collected by the South Asian Nitrogen Hub (SANH) 2020-2021

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• Last updated: 03 May 2023
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The database includes the classification of 966 active nitrogen-relevant policies from South Asia (including Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, the Maldives and Sri Lanka). The collection during 2020 and 2021 focuses on national level policies; some subnational policies were also collected. Data collection involved building on an existing open access global database developed by Kanter et al., 2020 that contained 51 policies for South Asia established to 2017 sourced by the environmental law ECOLEX database. Further policies were collected mostly from online sources: such as international policy databases: FAOLEX and national government and ministry websites. A protocol for policy collection and classification was established and followed to ensure consistent and thorough collections across the eight countries. Policies were classified according to a variety of parameters including the sink (air, water etc.) and sector (agriculture, industry etc.) they address and by type of policy. Policies were clustered if they had a central node policy in place and if a ‘subordinate policy’ (including amendments) did not offer anything new in terms of content related to Nitrogen management. This data was collected as part of a collective partnership that brings together leading organisations from across South Asia and the UK to reduce the adverse global impacts of nitrogen pollution on the environment, health, and wellbeing. More specifically providing a resource for both SANH partners and the wider scientific and policy community to understand the nitrogen policy landscape in the south Asian region. Furthermore, this research contributes to efforts in building a nitrogen policy arena promoting sustainable management of nitrogen, mitigating adverse effects. The dataset provides a thorough overview of available nitrogen related policies in South Asia but does not provide a complete set of all the nitrogen relevant policies available in each country. In some cases, this was due to our dependency on policy availability online, and some websites were not maintained. In addition, we excluded policies established post 2020 to avoid policy responses to COVID19 and to align more closely with the original global study. Repealed policies were omitted from the database. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/e2f248d5-79a1-4af9-bdd4-f739fb12ce9a

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2023-04-28T08:19:31
• Access contraints: The parties responsible for collection and interpretation of data include the University of Edinburgh, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Sustainable India Trust, The Maldives National University, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) University, TERI School of Advanced Studies, New York University, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, University of Peradeniya, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, and Kathmandu University.
• Harvest GUID: e2f248d5-79a1-4af9-bdd4-f739fb12ce9a
• Extent: Latitude: 39.437° to 5.179°
• Extent: Longitude: 61.021° to 93.911°
• Dataset reference date: 2021-11-09 (publication)
• Responsible party: University of Edinburgh (pointOfContact, author, owner); Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) University (author); Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (author); Sustainable India Trust (author); TERI School of Advanced Studies (author); The Maldives National University (author); University of Peradeniya (author); University of Edinburgh (author); Kathmandu University (author); New York University (author); Youth Alliance for Environment (YAE) (author); Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (author); Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (author); University of Agriculture Faisalabad (author); NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre (custodian, publisher)
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• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
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