Integrated landscape management
Our core capabilities
Our Integrated Landscape Management capability is focused on spatial and temporal analysis of landscape change to determine current and future impacts and risks to food, biodiversity, and other ecosystem services. Our analyses are necessary to help identify the best management and policy options for increasingly pressured land resources. Our research links current understandings of agricultural, ecological, hydrological and socio-economic processes with an understanding of landscape patterns and spatial structure. The approach can be applied at multiple scales and in different landscapes. Our expertise in landscape ecology, agriculture, forestry, natural resource economics, biodiversity, and spatial analysis means that we provide integrated landscape solutions for sectors including ecological conservation, and the production of renewable energy, food, feed and wood.
Staff expertise
Dr Humberto L. Perotto-Baldivieso: landscape ecology, natural hazards
Dr Andy Angus: natural resource and environmental economics
Dr Paul Burgess: Bio-economic modelling of forestry, arable, biomass and agroforestry systems
Dr Monica Rivas-Casado: geostatistics
Dr Anil Graves: stakeholder analysis; bio-economic modelling
Defining projects
Geospatial Centre for Biodiversity: 2011- 2012
Humberto Perotto-Baldivieso, Andy Gill
Working with the Bolivian Museum of Natural History and the JRS Biodiversity Foundation we are developing a virtual centre with 3 portals that to disseminate plant and animal information using web-GIS technologies. The site will inform policy decisions on agricultural development and minimise biodiversity loss. However, the website will also prove to be an excellent data resource for conservation researchers, and will engage youngsters in conservation issues.
Energyscapes and ecosystem services: 2009 - ongoing
Paul Burgess, Monica Rivas Casado
Focuses on the interaction between renewable energy, food production, carbon sequestration and habitat provision within Bedfordshire (ESRC)
Silvoarable Agroforestry for Europe (SAFE): 2001 - 2005
Use of validated bio-economic models and stakeholder input to determine the effects of different arable, agroforestry and forestry systems on production, profitability and the environment of landscape test sites in contrasting agroclimatic areas of Europe
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- Agriculture and forestry systems modelling
- Economics and Policy
- Ecosystem services and well-being
- Evidence and uncertainty
- Emerging technologies
- Horizon scanning and futures
- Life cycle assessment
- Integrated landscape management
- Reliability engineering
- Strategic risk appraisal
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