博士学位农业系统管理与环境科学

制定农场和部门一级的计划模型，气候变化对未来可持续性和耕作和畜牧业耕作制度的影响，制定适当的农民适应环境，市场和政策变化的适应战略，耕作制度对氮素损失和氮氧化物排放的影响全球变暖气体，农场一级生产第二代生物能源原料的经济性，能源和排放之间的权衡，第二代生物燃料秸秆的可消化潜力，包括种植者的决策，制定成本最低的农业策略以实现减少农业污染，农业风险管理，估算和解释技术效率变化，分析机械折旧率，检查农场与零售价格之间的联系，了解消费者对可持续食品的知识和态度，通过不同市场机制分析牲畜价格 基准测试在农村企业管理
Development of farm and sector-level programming models, impact of climate change on future sustainability and performance of arable and livestock farming systems, development of appropriate farmer adaptation strategies to environmental, market and policy change, impact of farming systems on nitrogen loss and emissions of global warming gases, trade-offs between economics, energy and emissions from the farm level production of feedstocks for second generation bioenergy production, digestible potential of straw for second generation biofuels, encompassing aspects of grower decision making, development of least-cost farming strategies to reduce pollution from agriculture, risk management in agriculture, estimating and explaining variation in technical efficiency, analysis of machinery depreciation rates, examining farm to retail price linkages, understanding consumer knowledge and attitudes towards sustainable food product, analysis of livestock prices through different market mechanisms, the role of benchmarking in rural business management. Sustainable soil management and remediation, rhizosphere biophysics, hydropedological applications of X-ray micro Computed Tomography, geochemistry and morphological assessment of permeable reactive barrier longevity, zeolite dissolution kinetics, trace element dynamics in soil-plant systems, plant uptake of heavy metals and radionuclides from contaminated soils, use of stable metal and metalloid isotope tracers to parameterise geochemical models, development of models to support environmental decision making, methods for the development of environmental models, ecological and physiological effects of veterinary drugs in the environment, biochar in sustainable agriculture, plant environment interactions and the development of quantitative palaeoclimate proxies based on plant fossils.