Image Resources Our extensive research library contains thousands of summaries of journal articles, reports and news stories that can be searched by keyword and category RESOURCES CATEGORYBooksBriefing paperEvent recordingFeatured articlesFeatured reportGameJournal articlesNews and resourcesReportsThink pieceVideoWorking paperWorkshop summary YEAR201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Image Resource Where are the best opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the food system (including the food chain)? This paper reviews estimates of food related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the global, regional and national levels, highlighting both GHG-intensive stages in the food chain, and GHG-intensive food types. Read Resource Where are the best opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the food system? Read Resource The Future of Food and Farming: Challenges and choices for global sustainability Read Resource Issues influencing food security: can new technologies prevent future food crises? Read Resource Biomass production for energy and its environmental impacts This paper, Gilbert P, Thornley P and Riche A B (2011). The influence of organic and inorganic fertiliser application rates on UK biomass crop sustainability Biomass and Bioenergy, in press, highlights firstly, the GHG reduction potential of producing biomass (willow or miscanthus) as a substitute for natural gas and secondly, the need to consider environmental impacts other than just GHGs (in this case eutrophication and acidification). The study finds that there are substantial GHG benefits to be had from growing biofuels as a substitute for gas. Read Resource Geoengineering Read Resource Modelling the impacts of a healthy diet on CVD and cancer This paper is by some of the same authors who wrote a paper for Friend of the Earth (see mailing of 23/10/10) which modelled the health impact of a lower meat diet. You can read the FoE report here. The FOE report essentially argues that a lower meat diet would deliver major health improvements largely because it assumes that a reduction in meat intakes will be compensated for by an increase in fruit and vegetables – which of course may or may not be the case. Read Resource Uncertainty around climate change Uncertainty around climate change is communicated in a paper entitled, Morton T A, Rabinovich A, Marshall D. Bretschneider (2011) The future that may (or may not) come: How framing changes responses to uncertainty in climate change communications. Global Environmental Change 21 pp103–109. Communicating possible effects of climate change inevitably involves uncertainty. Because people are generally averse to uncertainty, this Read Resource Does the CAP need a refit? Revamped agri-environment schemes could play a major role in ensuring we get maximum ecological and economic returns from UK land, according to research findings drawn from across the Relu programme. Briefing paper no 12, "Informing the Reform and Implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy", identifies key points from RELU research that could help to steer the reform of the CAP, currently underway. Read VIEW MORE
Image Resource Where are the best opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the food system (including the food chain)? This paper reviews estimates of food related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the global, regional and national levels, highlighting both GHG-intensive stages in the food chain, and GHG-intensive food types. Read
Resource Where are the best opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the food system? Read
Resource Biomass production for energy and its environmental impacts This paper, Gilbert P, Thornley P and Riche A B (2011). The influence of organic and inorganic fertiliser application rates on UK biomass crop sustainability Biomass and Bioenergy, in press, highlights firstly, the GHG reduction potential of producing biomass (willow or miscanthus) as a substitute for natural gas and secondly, the need to consider environmental impacts other than just GHGs (in this case eutrophication and acidification). The study finds that there are substantial GHG benefits to be had from growing biofuels as a substitute for gas. Read
Resource Modelling the impacts of a healthy diet on CVD and cancer This paper is by some of the same authors who wrote a paper for Friend of the Earth (see mailing of 23/10/10) which modelled the health impact of a lower meat diet. You can read the FoE report here. The FOE report essentially argues that a lower meat diet would deliver major health improvements largely because it assumes that a reduction in meat intakes will be compensated for by an increase in fruit and vegetables – which of course may or may not be the case. Read
Resource Uncertainty around climate change Uncertainty around climate change is communicated in a paper entitled, Morton T A, Rabinovich A, Marshall D. Bretschneider (2011) The future that may (or may not) come: How framing changes responses to uncertainty in climate change communications. Global Environmental Change 21 pp103–109. Communicating possible effects of climate change inevitably involves uncertainty. Because people are generally averse to uncertainty, this Read
Resource Does the CAP need a refit? Revamped agri-environment schemes could play a major role in ensuring we get maximum ecological and economic returns from UK land, according to research findings drawn from across the Relu programme. Briefing paper no 12, "Informing the Reform and Implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy", identifies key points from RELU research that could help to steer the reform of the CAP, currently underway. Read
