Pete Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pete Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pete |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3784-1124 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 94 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 211 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 94 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Assessing the impact of nature-based solutions on soil health in sub-Saharan Africa through farmer-centred methods
Soils underpin many ecosystem services, including food production, through functions such as organic matter decomposition. These functions are increasingly threatened by soil degradation, especially in climate-vulnerable regions, such as sub-Saharan Africa, where unstable soils are prone to severe erosion. As soils continue to degrade, farmers face multiple challenges; they cannot afford accurate tests to assess soil, their livelihoods are constr…
Upcycling trace amounts of biomass waste into flash graphene can boost crop yields by more than a quarter and offer climate benefits
Legume-rice rotations increase rice yields and carbon sequestration potential globally
Rice feeds half of the world's population but faces the pressures of yield demand under increasing environmental and climate pressures. Diversified cropping systems such as legume-based rotations may be a viable solution, but rice yield responses and environmental implications have not been synthesized globally. Here, based on 1,483 data pairs covering 17 major rice production countries worldwide, we revealed that legume inclusion increased subse…
Climate extremes, food price spikes, and their wider societal risks
We acknowledge the insights obtained from a number of discussions which informed the framing of this piece. In particular we thank Daria Kim from the Korean Broadcasting System, the Goldman Sachs Global Sustainability Investment Research Team, and discussants at the policy session on climate impacts and monetary policy at the annual conference of the European Association for Environmental & Resource Economists
Supporting researchers’ engagement in international science–policy bodies
Environmental, social and economic perceptions of local food production
Sustainable food systems are an important aspect of curbing the impacts of climate change and meeting targets of global food security. It is increasingly recognised that a wider suite of indicators is required to assess sustainability beyond the traditional environmental factors. This study focuses on Aberdeenshire, an atypical area of the UK where soils, climate and topography are not conducive to diverse or large-scale fruit and vegetable produ…
Ammonium enrichment in livestock manure driven by ammonia-abatement practices can reduce nitrous oxide emissions
The global potential for mitigating nitrous oxide emissions from croplands
Soil application of high-lignin fermentation byproduct to increase the sustainability of liquid biofuel production from crop residues
When digestates from anaerobic digestion of crop residues are added to soil, a considerable body of information indicates that soil organic carbon (SOC) levels are comparable to those when crop residues are left in the field. This occurs although the amount of digestate added to soil is diminished by digestion and implies that digestion increases the proportion of carbon inputs stabilized as SOC. Here we examine the likelihood and implications of…
Novel cropping-system strategies in China can increase plant protein with higher economic value but lower greenhouse gas emissions and water use
Spatially targeted nature-based solutions can mitigate climate change and nature loss but require a systems approach
Finite land is under pressure to provide food, timber, human infrastructure, climate change mitigation, and wildlife habitat. Given the inherent trade-offs associated with land-use choices, there is a need to assess how alternative land-use trajectories will impact the delivery of these benefits. Here, we develop nine exploratory, climate change mitigation-driven land-use scenarios for the UK. The scenario that maximized deployment of nature-base…
Agroecology as a transformative approach to tackle climatic, food, and ecosystemic crises
The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches
Forest restoration is being scaled up globally to deliver critical ecosystem services and biodiversity benefits; however, there is a lack of rigorous comparison of cobenefit delivery across different restoration approaches. Through global synthesis, we used 25,950 matched data pairs from 264 studies in 53 countries to assess how delivery of climate, soil, water, and wood production services, in addition to biodiversity, compares across a range of…
Biophysical and economic constraints on China’s natural climate solutions
Planetary Boundaries and the Doughnut frameworks
The concept of Planetary Boundaries has sparked debate around tipping points and the limits of the Earth System for over a decade. Among the most investigated aspects is how to downscale this global concept to a country level, to make it operative at scales at which decisions are taken and policies applied. Specifically how to achieve applicability locally while keeping global relevance, however, remains unclear. The same is true for the "Doughnu…
Decarbonizing through nature
A method to identify barriers to and enablers of implementing climate change mitigation options
Temperate Regenerative Agriculture practices increase soil carbon but not crop yield—a meta-analysis
Regenerative Agriculture (RA) claims to build soil organic carbon (SOC) and increase crop yields through simultaneous adoption of a suite of management practices which restore soil health. However, this claim is largely unevidenced as few studies of fully integrated regenerative systems are currently available. As a first step to addressing this knowledge gap, we here examine three practices now being promoted as part of RA: reducing tillage inte…
Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change
Nature‐based solutions (NbS)—solutions to societal challenges that involve working with nature—have recently gained popularity as an integrated approach that can address climate change and biodiversity loss, while supporting sustainable development. Although well‐designed NbS can deliver multiple benefits for people and nature, much of the recent limelight has been on tree planting for carbon sequestration. There are serious concerns that this is…
Global greenhouse gas emissions from animal-based foods are twice those of plant-based foods
Animal waste use and implications to agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in the United States
The increasing production of manure is a challenge for livestock management systems as well as the global environment. Being traditionally, and still dominantly, used as fertilizers, land application of manure could preserve soil fertility and improve soil carbon sequestration. However, manure application also increases nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions that might outweigh the benefits of carbon gains. Here we quantify soil carbon change and greenh…
Agricultural GHG emission and calorie intake nexus among different socioeconomic households of rural eastern India
China’s future food demand and its implications for trade and environment
Emerging reporting and verification needs under the Paris Agreement
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission inventories represent the link between national and international political actions on climate change, and climate and environmental sciences. Inventory agencies need to include, in national GHG inventories, emission and removal estimates based on scientific data following specific reporting guidance under the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement, using the methodologi…
Greenhouse gas emissions from Mediterranean agriculture
Designing effective mitigation policies for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture requires understanding the mechanisms by which management practices affect emissions in different agroclimatic conditions. Agricultural GHG emissions and carbon sequestration potentials have been extensively studied in the Mediterranean biome, which is a biodiversity hot spot that is highly vulnerable to environmental changes. However, the absolute magnitu…
Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification
Greedy or needy? Land use and climate impacts of food in 2050 under different livestock futures
Both supply and demand side changes are necessary to achieve a sustainable food system. However, the weight accorded to these depends on one’s view of what the priority goals are for the food system and the extent to which production systems versus consumption patterns are open to change. Some stakeholders see the problem as one of ‘not enough food’ and focus on the need to sustainably increase supply, while others consider the resource demanding…
A synopsis of land use, land-use change and forestry (Lulucf) under the Kyoto Protocol and Marrakech Accords
Expansion, Efficiency and Teaching Quality
Alan Jenkins, Pete Smith, Expansion, Efficiency and Teaching Quality: The Experience of British Geography Departments 1986-91, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 18, No. 4 (1993), pp. 500-515
Achieving mitigation and adaptation to climate change through sustainable agroforestry practices in Africa
Agroforestry is one of the most conspicuous land use systems across landscapes and agroecological zones in Africa. With food shortages and increased threats of climate change, interest in agroforestry is gathering for its potential to address various on-farm adaptation needs, and fulfill many roles in AFOLU-related mitigation pathways. Agroforestry provides assets and income from carbon, wood energy, improved soil fertility and enhancement of loc…
China’s future food demand and its implications for trade and environment
The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions
The environmental costs and benefits of high-yield farming
The vulnerabilities of agricultural land and food production to future water scarcity
We examine risks to current agricultural land to future changes in water availability. • We present a multiple model inter-comparison of future land demand and water availability. • Eleven percent of croplands and ten percent of grasslands are at risk from declining water availability. • Changes in diet and waste reduction offer a buffer against land loss and food insecurity. Rapidly increasing populations coupled with increased food demand requi…
Losing the Faith
This article tells the story of Pete, a welfare rights adviser who worked his way up to be Assistant Director of Social Services in a Midlands local authority. Pete joined the public sector with a sense of calling and a belief that local government could create positive social change. Over the next 25 years, however, Pete's calling was increasingly challenged as his job and the context in which he worked were transformed. This article focuses on …
Total global agricultural land footprint associated with UK food supply 1986–2011
Re‐framing the climate change debate in the livestock sector
Livestock play a key role in the climate change debate. As with crop‐based agriculture, the sector is both a net greenhouse gas emitter and vulnerable to climate change. At the same time, it is an essential food source for millions of people worldwide, with other functions apart from food security such as savings and insurance. By comparison with crop‐based agriculture, the interactions of livestock and climate change have been much less studied.…
Sustainability in global agriculture driven by organic farming
Agricultural production and greenhouse gas emissions from world regions—The major trends over 40 years
UK land use and soil carbon sequestration
Greenhouse gas emissions from Mediterranean agriculture
Designing effective mitigation policies for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture requires understanding the mechanisms by which management practices affect emissions in different agroclimatic conditions. Agricultural GHG emissions and carbon sequestration potentials have been extensively studied in the Mediterranean biome, which is a biodiversity hot spot that is highly vulnerable to environmental changes. However, the absolute magnitu…
Potential yield challenges to scale-up of zero budget natural farming
Climate change mitigation options in the rural land use sector
Estimating the contribution of rural land uses to greenhouse gas emissions
Emerging reporting and verification needs under the Paris Agreement
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission inventories represent the link between national and international political actions on climate change, and climate and environmental sciences. Inventory agencies need to include, in national GHG inventories, emission and removal estimates based on scientific data following specific reporting guidance under the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement, using the methodologi…
Not seeing the carbon for the trees? Why area-based targets for establishing new woodlands can limit or underplay their climate change mitigation benefits
Area-based targets for afforestation are a frequent and prominent component of policy discourses on forestry, land use and climate change emissions abatement. Such targets imply an expected contribution of afforestation to the net reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, yet the nature of afforestation undertaken and its geographical distribution means that there is considerable uncertainty over the eventual emission reductions outcomes. This uncer…
The 4p1000 initiative
Long-term marginal abatement cost curves of non-CO2 greenhouse gases
Agriculture
Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from agriculture can be tackled by reducing demand for, and consumption of, nitrogen (N) inputs via diet modification and waste reduction, and/or through technologies applied at the field level. Here we focus on the latter options. Opportunities for mitigating N2O emissions at the field level can be advanced by a clearer scientific understanding of the system complexities leading to emissions, while maintaining agric…
Greenhouse gas mitigation in Chinese agriculture
A Communist View
As an active and long-time member of the Communist Party, I am happy to express my opinions on the important question as to how we can increase the strength of the Left in America.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Ireland's Vernacular Architecture
(1976). Ireland's Vernacular Architecture. Vernacular Architecture: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 29-29
Formen des Wiederholens bei Homer
Expansion, Efficiency and Teaching Quality
Alan Jenkins, Pete Smith, Expansion, Efficiency and Teaching Quality: The Experience of British Geography Departments 1986-91, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 18, No. 4 (1993), pp. 500-515
Political Parties, Parliament and Women's Suffrage in France, 1919-1939
POLITICAL PARTIES, PARLIAMENT AND WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN FRANCE, 1919–1939 PAUL SMITH PAUL SMITH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar * The author is Lecturer in French at the University of Nottingham. Author Notes French History, Volume 11, Issue 3, September 1997, Pages 338–358, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/11.3.338 Published: 01 September 1997
Beyond our ken
The Iron law of malarkey
Is the Labour Party destined to become simply a stage army of loyalists? Pete Smith looks at the implications for Labour and the other political parties
Hebron
The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in a University Learning Environment
This article reports three related studies which investigate how undergraduates use and think about information and communication technologies (ICT) in the context of learning at university. Data were obtained via questionnaires, computer diary records and focus group discussions. The studies were intended to help universities decide how to incorporate ICT into student learning, how the cost of equipment should be shared between students and inst…
Political Intellectuals and Public Identities in Britain Since 1850
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The Sundial Garden and House-Plan Mount
Ecosystem Service Supply and Vulnerability to Global Change in Europe
Global change will alter the supply of ecosystem services that are vital for human well-being. To investigate ecosystem service supply during the 21st century, we used a range of ecosystem models and scenarios of climate and land-use change to conduct a Europe-wide assessment. Large changes in climate and land use typically resulted in large changes in ecosystem service supply. Some of these trends may be positive (for example, increases in fores…
A coherent set of future land use change scenarios for Europe
Empathic Resonance and Meryl Streep
We borrow a psychological concept, "empathic resonance," and use the concept as a theory for understanding how audiences react to films or television shows. Specifically, we use empathic resonance to analyze twelve Meryl Streep films in which she was nominated for an Oscar. We explain how empathic resonance functions in Streep's films
A synopsis of land use, land-use change and forestry (Lulucf) under the Kyoto Protocol and Marrakech Accords
Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture
Agricultural lands occupy 37% of the earth's land surface. Agriculture accounts for 52 and 84% of global anthropogenic methane and nitrous oxide emissions. Agricultural soils may also act as a sink or source for CO 2 , but the net flux is small. Many agricultural practices can potentially mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the most prominent of which are improved cropland and grazing land management and restoration of degraded lands and cul…
UK land use and soil carbon sequestration
Competition for land
A key challenge for humanity is how a future global population of 9 billion can all be fed healthily and sustainably. Here, we review how competition for land is influenced by other drivers and pressures, examine land-use change over the past 20 years and consider future changes over the next 40 years. Competition for land, in itself, is not a driver affecting food and farming in the future, but is an emergent property of other drivers and pressu…
The greenhouse gas balance of European grasslands
The long-term carbon balance (NBP) of grasslands is estimated by combining scarce multi-year eddy-covariance observations at ecosystem observation sites where information on carbon inputs and harvesting removals is available. Following accounting for carbon leached to rivers, we estimated grasslands to be net carbon sinks of 74±10 g C m−2 yr−1. Uncertainties arise from the small number of sites and the short measurement period. Only 11 sites, out…
Integrative management to mitigate diffuse pollution in multi-functional landscapes
Assessing existing peatland models for their applicability for modelling greenhouse gas emissions from tropical peat soils
Soils and climate change
Estimating the contribution of rural land uses to greenhouse gas emissions
Climate extremes and the carbon cycle
Assessing “Dangerous Climate Change”
We assess climate impacts of global warming using ongoing observations and paleoclimate data. We use Earth's measured energy imbalance, paleoclimate data, and simple representations of the global carbon cycle and temperature to define emission reductions needed to stabilize climate and avoid potentially disastrous impacts on today's young people, future generations, and nature. A cumulative industrial-era limit of ∼500 GtC fossil fuel emissions a…
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