Dr Peter Alexander
Interdisciplinary Lecturer in Global Food Security
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 2537
- Email: peter.alexander@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security
The University of Edinburgh
Easter Bush Campus - City
- Midlothian
- Post code
- EH25 9RG
Background
The social, economic and ecological interactions and trade-offs within land use systems. Approaches typically use high-performance computing to apply data and computationally intensive techniques, such as agent-based modelling, to improve understanding of these complex systems. For example, the role of bioenergy in decarbonising energy production and delivering other societal benefits. Other current work includes developing a new global agricultural land use model and analysis of the drivers for agricultural land use change.
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Why the US–China trade war spells disaster for the Amazon
In:
Nature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00896-2
Contribution to journal › Comment/debate (Published) -
Achievement of Paris climate goals unlikely due to time lags in the land system : Paris climate goals challenged by time lags in the land system
In:
Nature Climate Change
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0400-5
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Adaptation of global land use and management intensity to changes in climate and atmospheric carbon dioxide
In:
Global Change Biology, pp. 2791-2809
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14110
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Modelling feedbacks between human and natural processes in the land system
In:
Earth System Dynamics, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 895-914
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-895-2018
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Food supply and bioenergy production within the global cropland planetary boundary
In:
PLoS ONE, vol. 13, no. 3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194695
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Why Culture matters for planetary health
In:
The Lancet Planetary Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(18)30205-5
Contribution to journal › Comment/debate (Published) -
Empricial evidence for the diffusion of knowledge in land use change
In:
Journal of Land Use Science, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 269-283
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1747423X.2018.1515995
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Losses, inefficiencies and waste in the global food system
In:
Agricultural systems, vol. 153, pp. 190-200
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2017.01.014
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Sustainable intensification of Brazilian livestock production through optimized pasture restoration
(11 pages)
In:
Agricultural systems, vol. 153, pp. 201-211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2017.02.001
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Could consumption of insects, cultured meat or imitation meat reduce global agricultural land use?
In:
Global Food Security, vol. 15, pp. 22-32
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2017.04.001
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)