A5060868417- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Genetically Modified Organisms Research
- Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization
- Food composition and properties
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Forest Management and Policy
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Genetics and Plant Breeding
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
University of Exeter
2022-2025
University College London
2021
King's College London
2016
University of Turin
2010
One of Georgina Mace’s many transformational research contributions was to provide a universally applicable framework for incorporating any or all elements and connections the natural environment within conventional economic decision-making. We apply this capital consider overall effects suite land-use policy options intended promote conservation renewal biodiversity. Options considered include sharing, sparing, three-compartment rewilding organic farming regimes. Each is assessed in terms...
To meet decarbonization targets, nations around the globe have made ambitious commitments to expand forested land. Operationalizing these requires choosing a planting strategy: How many trees should be planted, of which species, and where? Given those choices must now but long-term consequences, such decisions are plagued by uncertainty. For example, species that well suited present conditions may perform poorly under future climates, yet climates themselves highly uncertain. Using exemplar...
By embedding a spatially explicit ecosystem services modelling tool within policy simulator we examine the insights that natural capital analysis can bring to design of policies for nature recovery. Our study is illustrated through case example incentivising establishment new habitat in England. We find mirroring current practice offering payments per hectare creation fails break even, delivering less value improved flows than public money spent and only 26% which theoretically achievable....
BACKGROUND: Numerous foods are produced from maize, and grain hardness has been described to have an impact on end-use value, in particular for dry-milling performance. RESULTS: Thirty-three samples of commercial hybrids analysed test weight (TW), thousand-kernel (TKW), hard:soft endosperm ratio (H/S), milling time (MT) total energy (TME) through the Stenvert test, coarse:fine material (C/F), break force (HF) (HWF) puncture floating (FLT), kernel dimensions sphericity (S), protein (PC),...
Land use change is crucial to addressing the existential threats of climate and biodiversity loss while enhancing food security [M. Zurek et al. , Science 376 1416–1421 (2022)]. The interconnected spatially varying nature impacts land means that these challenges must be addressed simultaneously [H.-O. Pörtner 380 eabl4881 (2023)]. However, governments commonly focus on single issues, incentivizing via “Flat-Rate” subsidies offering constant per hectare payments, uptake which determined by...
Abstract The literature is replete with valuations of the costs and benefits environmental change, yet issue where those impacts fall across society rarely considered. This a significant knowledge gap given clear evidence social preferences regarding distributional effects reflected in both policy protest. As an initial contribution, we examine projects designed to more than offset biodiversity housing developments England, as mandated under UK's Net Gain legislation. Employing nationally...
Abstract Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons has often been cited as rationale for privatization pastures throughout world, yet rangeland degradation is still widespread. A significant body ecological research demonstrated negative impacts from limiting herd movement through fencing. The followed heterogeneous patterns. We use a natural experiment in common grazing areas on eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau where land was privatized beginning 1999 following different division measure relationship...
Genetically modified (GM) crops have single or multiple genes introduced to obtain crop characteristics that cannot be obtained through conventional breeding. Pollen mediated gene flow from GM non-GM causes some planted as become GM, and this imposes economic losses on farmers who a but then sell the harvest market. The result when both are grown together depend institutional arrangements type of property rights in place. We analyze how spatial heterogeneity farmer’s fields affects land...