Chris Short

University of Gloucestershire, Countryside & Community Research Institute, Faculty Member

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Chris is Reader in Environmental Governance and his main research interests lie in the relationship between different land uses for agriculture, forestry, nature conservation and recreation. He has particular interests in the development and implementation of integrated rural development and agri-environment policy. He has considerable expertise in issues relating to collective action and shared resources, notably common land and town and village greens within England and Wales. Chris is also convenor for the Environmental Dynamics and Governance, one of 6 research priority areas across the university.

Major Areas of Expertise:
- Considerable experience of contract research for government agencies
- Specialist in rural resource management
- Policy evaluation, land use issues and agri-environment policy
- Change and adjustment within the land-based sector
- Expert in common land and common property management issues
- Sustainable Agriculture and Multi-functional Land Use Management
- Use of qualitative and quantitative research methods
- Use of participatory methods in range of situations
- Linking teaching and research
Phone: +44 (0)1242 714550
Address: Christopher Short
Senior Research Fellow
Countryside & Community Research Institute
Dunholme Villa
Park Campus
CHELTENHAM
GL50 2RH
England

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Evaluation of key factors that lead to successful agri-environmental co-operative schemes

A classification of European agricultural land using an energy-based intensity indicator and detailed crop description

Landscape and Urban Planning, 2020

With agricultural areas covering almost half of European land, proper management of agro-ecosyste... more With agricultural areas covering almost half of European land, proper management of agro-ecosystems is key to achieve the European Union's environmental and climate objectives. This requires spatially explicit methods and indicators. We developed an approach for the classification of agricultural land by combining two main dimensions i) land cover, using detailed geo-spatialized census data covering 63 individual crops; ii) management intensity, measured as the anthropogenic energy required in the primary crop production. As a result we identified 10 main crop systems further classified into 30 'crop-management systems' at a spatial resolution of 5 arcminutes. The resulting maps show the spatial patterns of agricultural management intensity across Europe, both in absolute terms (total energy input per hectare) and relative to the dominant crop system in the spatial unit of analysis. The use of multiple intensity dimensions provides new, more detailed insights on agricultural intensity by which areas that were previously classified as low-medium intensive-some permanent crops systems or irrigated arable land-appear now as highly intensive. An expert-based evaluation was carried out on the intensity maps and corroborated the obtained results. The generated maps can be used to support decisionmaking in designing more targeted, context-specific agricultural and territorial policies. In particular, findings can be relevant in the context of the Common Agricultural Policy post 2020 and the Biodiversity Strategy towards 2030, both of which will benefit from more detailed spatially explicit information to achieve their stated objectives.

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