Browsing by Author "Burgess, Paul"

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  • AGFORWARD Project Final Report 
    Burgess, Paul; den Herder, M.; Dupraz, C.; Garnett, Kenisha; Giannitsopoulos, Michail; Graves, Anil; Hermansen, J. E.; Kanzler, M.; Liagre, F.; Mirck, J.; Moreno, G.; Mosquera-Losada, M. R.; Palma, João H. N.; Pantera, A.; Plieninger, T. (Cranfield University, 2018-02-28)
    Executive summary: The AGFORWARD project (Grant Agreement N° 613520) had the overall goal to promote agroforestry practices in Europe that will advance sustainable rural development. It had four objectives (described ...
  • AGFORWARD Third Periodic Report: July 2016 to December 2017 
    Burgess, Paul; den Herder, M.; Dupraz, C.; Garnett, Kenisha; Giannitsopoulos, Michail; Graves, Anil; Hermansen, J. E.; Kanzler, M.; Liagre, F.; Moreno, G.; Mosquera-Losada, M. R.; Palma, João H. N.; Pantera, A.; Plieninger, T. (Cranfield University, 2018-03-01)
    Project context The European Union has targets to improve the competitiveness of European agriculture and forestry, whilst improving the environment and the quality of rural life. At the same time there is a need to ...
  • Agroforestry as a sustainable land use option to reduce wildfires risk in European Mediterranean areas 
    Damianidis, Christos; Santiago-Freijanes, Jose Javier; den Herder, Michael; Burgess, Paul; Mosquera-Losada, María Rosa; Graves, Anil; Papadopoulos, Andreas; Pisanelli, Andrea; Camilli, Francesca; Rois-Díaz, Mercedes; Kay, Sonja; Palma, João H. N.; Pantera, Anastasia (Springer, 2020-01-11)
    Wildfires have always been an integral part of the ecology of many terrestrial ecosystems, but their frequency is increasing in many parts of the world. Wildfires were once a natural phenomenon, but after humans learned ...
  • Agroforestry is paying off – Economic evaluation of ecosystem services in European landscapes with and without agroforestry systems 
    Kay, Sonja; Graves, Anil; Palma, João H. N.; Moreno, Gerardo; Roces-Díaz, José V.; Aviron, Stephanie; Chouvardas, Dimitrios; Crous-Duran, Josep; Ferreiro-Domínguez, Nuria; Garcia de Jalon, Silvestre; Macicasan, Vlad; Mosquera-Losada, María Rosa; Pantera, Anastasia; Santiago-Freijanes, Jose Javier; Szerencsits, Erich; Torralba, Mario; Burgess, Paul; Herzog, Felix (Elsevier, 2019-02-02)
    The study assessed the economic performance of marketable ecosystem services (ES) (biomass production) and non-marketable ecosystem services and dis-services (groundwater, nutrient loss, soil loss, carbon sequestration, ...
  • Assessing the environmental impacts of healthier diets. Final report to Defra on project FO0427 
    Williams, Adrian; Morris, Joe; Audsley, Eric; Hess, Tim; Goglio, Pietro; Burgess, Paul; Chatterton, Julia; Pearn, Kerry; Mena, Carlos; Whitehead, Peter (2018-09-27)
    Summary: oncern about the public health impacts of dietary habits in the UK have led to initiatives to encourage healthier eating, notably in the dietary guidelines represented of the eatwell plate (FSA, 2007) and the ...
  • Creating agroforestry innovation and best practice leaflets 
    Burgess, Paul; Moreno, Gerardo; Pantera, Anastasia; Kanzler, Michael; Hermansen, John; van Lerberghe, Philippe; Balaguer, Fabien; Girardin, Nicolas; Rosati, Adolfo; Graves, Anil; Watté, Jeroen; Mosquera-Losada, Rosa; Waldie, Kevin; Pagella, Tim; Liagre, Fabien (European Agroforestry Federation and the University of Santiago de Compostela, 2018-05-30)
    A key output of the EU FP7 project AGFORWARD was a series of 46 agroforestry innovation and 10 agroforestry best practice leaflets for European farmers and other stakeholders. This paper describes the process of over 80 ...
  • Cross-site analysis of perceived ecosystem service benefits in multifunctional landscapes 
    Fagerholm, Nora; Torralba, Mario; Moreno, Gerardo; Girardello, Marco; Herzog, Felix; Aviron, Stephanie; Burgess, Paul; Crous-Duran, Josep; Ferreiro-Domínguez, Nuria; Graves, Anil; Hartel, Tibor; Măcicăsan, Vlad; Kay, Sonja; Pantera, Anastasia; Varga, Anna; Plieninger, Tobias (Elsevier, 2019-05-06)
    Rural development policies in many Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries promote sustainable landscape management with the intention of providing multiple ecosystem services (ES). ...
  • Development of Crop.LCA, an adaptable screening life cycle assessment tool for agricultural systems: a Canadian scenario assessment 
    Goglio, Pietro; Smith, Ward N.; Worth, Devon E.; Grant, Brian B.; Desjardins, Raymond L.; Chen, Wen; Tenuta, Mario; McConkey, Brian G.; Williams, Adrian; Burgess, Paul (Elsevier, 2017-06-22)
    There is an increasing demand for sustainable agricultural production as part of the transition towards a globally sustainable economy. To quantify impacts of agricultural systems on the environment, life cycle assessment ...
  • Dry deposition of air pollutants on trees at regional scale: a case study in the Basque Country 
    García de Jalón, Silvestre; Burgess, Paul; Curiel Yuste, Jorge; Moreno, Gerardo; Graves, Anil; Palma, João H. N.; Crous-Duran, Josep; Kay, Sonja; Chiabai, Aline (Elsevier Masson, 2019-07-19)
    There is increased interest in the role of trees to reduce air pollution and thereby improve human health and well-being. This study determined the removal of air pollutants by dry deposition of trees across the Basque ...
  • Economic valuation of ecosystem goods and services: a review for decision makers 
    Tinch, Robert; Beaumont, Nicola; Sunderland, Tim; Ozdemiroglu, Ece; Barton, David; Bowe, Colm; Börger, Tobias; Burgess, Paul; Cooper, Canon Nigel; Faccioli, Michela; Failler, Pierre; Gkolemi, Ioanna; Kumar, Ritesh; Longo, Alberto; McVittie, Alistair; Morris, Joe; Park, Jacob; Ravenscroft, Neil; Schaafsma, Marije; Vause, James; Ziv, Guy (Taylor and Francis, 2019-06-11)
    There is increasing interest in the use of economic valuation of ecosystem goods and services for a wide variety of purposes. These include relatively familiar uses in project appraisal and more novel applications in ...
  • Effects of conservation tillage drills on soil quality indicators in a wheat‐oilseed rape rotation: organic carbon, earthworms and water stable aggregates 
    Giannitsopoulos, Michail; Burgess, Paul; Rickson, R. Jane (Wiley, 2019-07-18)
    The effects of five conservation tillage drills with crop residue levels covering between 17% and 79% of the soil, and tillage depths ranging from 25 mm to 200 mm, were examined over three years. The tillage systems ranged ...
  • Integrating belowground carbon dynamics into Yield-SAFE, a parameter sparse agroforestry model 
    Palma, João H. N.; Crous-Duran, Josep; Graves, Anil; García de Jalón, Silvestre; Upson, Matthew; Oliveira, Tania S.; Paulo, Joana A.; Ferreiro-Domínguez, N.; Moreno, Gerardo; Burgess, Paul (Springer, 2017-09-16)
    Agroforestry combines perennial woody elements (e.g. trees) with an agricultural understory (e.g. wheat, pasture) which can also potentially be used by a livestock component. In recent decades, modern agroforestry systems ...
  • Land use change and soil carbon pools: Evidence from a long-term silvopastoral 
    Fornara, Dario A.; Olave, Rodrigo; Burgess, Paul; Delmer, Aude; Upson, Matthew; McAdam, Jim (Springer, 2017-09-23)
    Multi-functional silvopastoral systems provide a wide range of services to human society including the regulation of nutrients and water in soils and the sequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Although silvopastoral ...
  • Mixtures of forest and agroforestry alleviate trade-offs between ecosystem services in European rural landscapes 
    Rolo, Victor; Roces-Díaz, José V.; Torralba, Mario; Kay, Sonja; Fagerholm, Nora; Aviron, Stephanie; Burgess, Paul; Crous-Duran, Josep; Ferreiro-Domínguez, Nuria; Graves, Anil; Hartel, Tibor; Mantzanas, Konstantinos; Mosquera-Losada, María Rosa; Palma, João H. N.; Sidiropoulou, Anna; Szerencsits, Erich; Viaud, Valérie; Herzog, Felix; Plieninger, Tobias; Moreno, Gerardo (Elsevier, 2021-06-17)
    Rural Europe encompasses a variety of landscapes with differing levels of forest, agriculture, and agroforestry that can deliver multiple ecosystem services (ES). Whilst provisioning and regulating ES associated with ...
  • Modelling the yield and profitability of intercropped walnut systems in Croatia 
    Žalac, Helena; Burgess, Paul; Graves, Anil; Giannitsopoulos, Michail; Paponja, Ivan; Popović, Brigita; Ivezić, Vladimir (Springer, 2021-03-24)
    In Croatia, farmers are showing increasing interest in establishing walnut orchards for nut production on arable land due to higher anticipated net margins. One way to address the lack of profitability in the initial years ...
  • The Potential Contribution of Agroforestry to Net Zero Objectives. Report for the Woodland Trust 
    Burgess, Paul; Graves, Anil (Cranfield University, 2022-11-01)
    The aim of this report, for the Woodland Trust, is to examine the potential contribution of agroforestry to net zero objectives in the United Kingdom over the next 40-50 years, with a focus on 2050. As part of the drive ...
  • Scanning agroforestry-based solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation in Europe 
    Hernández-Morcillo, Mónica; Burgess, Paul; Mirck, Jaconette; Pantera, Anastasia; Plieninger, Tobias (Elsevier, 2017-11-25)
    Agroforestry, the integration of trees and shrubs with livestock and/or crops, can make a substantial contribution to mitigating and enabling adaptation to climate change. However, its full potential will only be achieved ...
  • Scoping potential routes to UK civil unrest via the food system: results of a structured expert elicitation 
    Jones, Aled; Bridle, Sarah; Katherine, Denby; [...]; Burgess, Paul; et al. (MDPI, 2023-10-12)
    We report the results of a structured expert elicitation to identify the most likely types of potential food system disruption scenarios for the UK, focusing on routes to civil unrest. We take a backcasting approach by ...
  • Towards net zero in agriculture: future challenges and opportunities for arable, livestock and protected cropping systems in the UK 
    Sakrabani, Ruben; Garnett, Kenisha; Knox, Jerry W.; Rickson, R. Jane; Pawlett, Mark; Falagán Sama, Natalia; Girkin, Nicholas T.; Cain, Michelle; Alamar, M. Carmen; Burgess, Paul; Harris, Jim A.; Patchigolla, Kumar; Sandars, Daniel; Graves, Anil; Hannam, Jacqueline; Simmons, Robert (SAGE, 2023-06-12)
    The agricultural sector faces multiple challenges linked to increased climate uncertainty, causing severe shocks including increased frequency of extreme weather events, new pest and disease risks, soil degradation, and ...
  • Understanding agroforestry practices in Europe through landscape features policy promotion 
    Santiago-Freijanes, Jose Javier; Santiago-Freijanes, Jose Javier; Aldrey, J. A.; Moreno, G.; den Herder, M.; Burgess, Paul; Mosquera-Losada, M. R. (Springer, 2018-02-17)
    Agroforestry understood as the combination of a woody component (forest tree, shrub, fruit tree) with an agricultural use of the understory is not clearly identified as such by the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). ...