Research Interests

My principal interest is systems sustainability and my research programme focuses on two sectors: agriculture/food and healthcare. My work uses environmental accounting techniques (life cycle assessment, footprinting, mass balances) to examine the trade-offs and impacts that occur within systems. Specific research includes:

• the interactions between land management, agriculture and the environment
• environmental accounting (carbon, water and environmental footprinting, mass and energy balances)
• sustainable healthcare
• food security
• greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture
• ecosystem services
• composting, anaerobic digestion and the application of organic materials to agricultural land
• nitrogen balances in agriculture
• the nitrogen nutrition of crops and the release of nitrogen from crop residues

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