Browsing Staff publications (SWEE) by Subject "Land use"

Browsing Staff publications (SWEE) by Subject "Land use"

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  • Advances in European agroforestry: results from the AGFORWARD project 
    Burgess, Paul J.; Rosati, Adolfo (Springer, 2018-06-09)
    In global terms, European farms produce high yields of safe and high quality food but this depends on the use of many off-farm inputs and the associated greenhouse gas emissions, loss of soil nutrients and other negative ...
  • 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 ...
  • Current extent and stratification of agroforestry in the European Union 
    den Herder, Michael; Moreno, Gerardo; Mosquera-Losada, María Rosa; Palma, João H. N.; Sidiropoulou, Anna; Santiago-Freijanes, Jose Javier; Crous-Duran, Josep; Paulo, Joana A.; Tomé, Margarida; Pantera, Anastasia; Papanastasis, Vasilios P.; Mantzanas, Kostas; Pachana, Przemko; Papadopoulos, Andreas; Plieninger, Tobias; Burgess, Paul J. (Elsevier, 2017-03-20)
    An accurate and objective estimate on the extent of agroforestry in Europe is critical for the development of supporting policies. For this reason, a more harmonised and uniform Pan-European estimate is needed. The aim of ...
  • Modelling the production impacts of a widespread conversion to organic agriculture in England and Wales 
    Smith, Laurence G.; Jones, Philip J.; Kirk, Guy J. D.; Pearce, Bruce D.; Williams, Adrian G. (Elsevier, 2018-05-24)
    We assess the production impacts of a 100% conversion to organic agriculture in England and Wales using a large-scale linear programming model. The model includes a range of typical farm structures, scaled up across the ...
  • Predicting the impacts of bioenergy production on farmland birds 
    Rivas Casado, Monica; Mead, Andrew; Burgess, Paul J.; Howard, David C.; Butler, Simon J. (Elsevier, 2014-01-21)
    Meeting European renewable energy production targets is expected to cause significant changes in land use patterns. With an EU target of obtaining 20% of energy consumption from renewable sources by 2020, national and local ...
  • The relationship between spatial configuration of urban parks and neighbourhood cooling in a humid subtropical city 
    Verma, Ravi; Zawadzka, Joanna Ewa; Garg, Pradeep Kumar; Corstanje, Ron (Springer, 2024-02-14)
    Context Urban parks are essential for maintaining aesthetics within cities and keeping their its energy balance by helping mitigate the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect through controlling ambient and land surface temperature ...
  • Shared Socio-economic Pathways for European agriculture and food systems: the Eur-Agri-SSPs 
    Mitter, Hermine; Techen, Anja-K.; Sinabell, Franz; Helming, Katharina; Schmid, Erwin; Bodirsky, Benjamin L.; Holman, Ian P.; Kok, Kasper; Lehtonen, Heikki; Leip, Adrian; Le Mouël, Chantal; Mathijs, Erik; Mehdi, Bano; Mittenzwei, Klaus; Mora, Olivier; Øistad, Knut; Øygarden, Lillian; Priess, Jörg A.; Schönhart, Martin (Elsevier, 2020-09-19)
    Scenarios describe plausible and internally consistent views of the future. They can be used by scientists, policymakers and entrepreneurs to explore the challenges of global environmental change given an appropriate level ...

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