A city has a sustainability goal of reducing the amount of nitrogen leaving their city and polluting neighboring ecosystems. The city has put in new regulations and management activities intended to reduce nitrogen outputs. Now the city wants to determine whether they have been successful and they hire a scientist to help them. How would the scientist use the budgetary approach to determine whether the regulations and activities were successful?
The scientist determines that the city has failed to meet their sustainability goal. To help the city determine why they failed, the scientist recommends that the city disaggregates their nitrogen budget. How would this recommendation help the city determine why their regulations and activities did not result in a reduction in nitrogen outputs?