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Environmental Management
Environmental Management research at SAC puts an emphasis on improving understanding of how farming systems interact with the environment and assessing how best farming systems can be developed to increase their sustainable use of natural resources and maximise their positive environmental impacts. Our projects can be grouped under five main areas:
- Understanding how agriculture contributes to climate change, assessing how climate change will affect farming systems and developing strategies to help farming systems mitigate climate change impacts
- Understanding the intimate relationships between farming systems and farmland biodiversity, identifying system characteristics which are essential from a biodiversity perspective and developing strategies to maintain and enhance farmland biodiversity in those systems
- Understanding the links between wildlife ecology and livestock disease transmission, assessing the disease transmission risks associated with different farming systems and developing disease control strategies to reduce those risks
- Understanding how farming systems utilise natural resources, assessing the impact the systems have on soil and water quality in particular and developing strategies to mitigate those impacts
- Understanding the impact that changes to agricultural or environmental policies will have on farming systems and predicting the impact such changes to the farming system will have on the environment