Dr Peter Alexander
Interdisciplinary Senior 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 Projects
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Modelling food security: Bridging the gap between the micro and the macro scale
In:
Global Environmental Change, vol. 63, pp. 102085
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102085
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Exploring global food system shocks, scenarios and outcomes
In:
Futures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2020.102601
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
UK food system resilience tested by Covid-19
In:
Nature food
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-0082-1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment/debate (E-pub ahead of print) -
Modelling alternative management scenarios of economic and environmental sustainability of beef finishing systems
In:
Journal of Cleaner Production, pp. 119888
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119888
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Comparing the impact of future cropland expansion on global biodiversity and carbon storage across models and scenarios
In:
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0189
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
A bio-economic model for cost analysis of alternative management strategies in beef finishing systems.
In:
Agricultural systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2019.102713
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
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
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The role of global dietary transitions for safeguarding biodiversity
In:
Global Environmental Change, vol. 58
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101956
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
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
Research output: 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
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)