A5068827460- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Rural development and sustainability
- Regulation and Compliance Studies
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Helminth infection and control
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
Scotland's Rural College
2015-2024
Innovative Technology and Science (United Kingdom)
2021
Scottish Agricultural Science Agency
2003-2019
Athabasca University
2019
Wilfrid Laurier University
2012-2018
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
2018
King's College Hospital
2016
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
2013
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
2012
University of Edinburgh
2010
Global aquaculture makes an important contribution to food security directly (by increasing availability and accessibility) indirectly (as a driver of economic development). In order enable sustainable expansion aquaculture, we need understand aquaculture's global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions how it can be mitigated. This study quantifies the GHG from (excluding farming aquatic plants), with focus on using modern, commercial feed formulations for main species groups geographic regions....
Abstract This article addresses the challenge of developing a ‘bottom‐up’ marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from UK agriculture. An MACC illustrates costs specific crop, soil and livestock measures against ‘business as usual’ scenario. The results indicate that in 2022 under policy scenario, around 5.38 Mt CO 2 equivalent (e) could be abated at negative or zero cost. A further 17% agricultural GHG (7.85 e) lower unit than Government’s shadow price carbon...
<b>Objective</b> To assess the relation between troponin concentration, assay precision, and clinical outcomes in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome. <b>Design</b> Cohort study. <b>Setting</b> Tertiary centre Scotland. <b>Participants</b> 2092 consecutive admitted syndrome were stratified a sensitive I into three groups (<0.012, 0.012-0.049, ≥0.050 µg/L) based on 99th centile for concentration (0.012 µg/L; coefficient of variation 20.8%) diagnostic threshold (0.050 7.2%)....
Fishmeal is an important source of high quality protein in aquaculture, but concerns about its cost and sustainability are making it a less attractive feed material. Replacing fishmeal with plant proteins can impact on the nutritional farmed salmon. In theory insect meals could be substituted for without affecting fish produced. They also provide way adding value to bio-wastes used rear insects. However little known consumer or producer attitudes towards use meals. This paper reports...
Nitrous oxide (N2O) makes the single largest contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from UK and European Union agriculture. Ambitious government targets for GHG mitigation are leading implementation of changes in agricultural management order reduce these (mitigation measures). We review evidence those measures with greatest potential which provide an estimated 4.3 t CO2e ha−1 y−1 reduction UK. The options considered were: using biological fixation nitrogen (N) inputs (clover,...
We aimed to estimate 1) the marginal effect of liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica) infection on productivity Scottish beef cattle, and 2) associated greenhouse gas emissions intensity (GHG EI). Data comprised 240,065 abattoir records from NE Scotland 2014 2017, including presence or absence lesions typical in at time slaughter, which we inferred status. The retrospective analysis effects an exposure is complicated by multi-dimensional, clustered nature datasets, result confounding potential...
Methane emissions from the aquatic environment exhibit distinct characteristics: while oceans, covering 70% of Earth&#8217;s surface, emit 9 Tg methane annually, freshwater wetlands, which occupy only 2% 150-200 per year. This significant contrast raises important questions about underlying mechanisms and potential strategies to mitigate in these water systems. In this work, we explore challenges opportunities mitigation both marine environments.&#160;For existing projections future...