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.
Research activities
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The vulnerabilities of agricultural land and food production to future water scarcity
In:
Global Environmental Change, vol. 58, pp. 101944
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101944
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Transforming agricultural land use through marginal gains in the food system
In:
Global Environmental Change
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101932
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Beyond land cover change: Towards a new generation of Land Use Models
In:
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, vol. 38, pp. 77-85
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.05.002
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Sustainable Proteins Production
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
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 (Published) -
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)