Vera Eory

Selected research projects

• Genomic management Tools to Optimise Resilience and Efficiency (GenTORE), H2020 (2017-2022)Developing innovative genome-enabled selection and management tools to optimise cattle resilience and efficiency in widely varying environments across Europe.
• Great Soils Research to deliver Greenhouse Gas REmovals and Abatement Technologies (Soils-R-GGREAT), NERC (2017-2021)
  Comprehensive global assessment of the potential, feasibility, barriers and impacts of soil-based greenhouse gas removal options.
• Productive and sustainable land management and rural economies, Scottish Government, RESAS (2016-2021)
  Assessing alternative practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from farming and to enhance nutrient and energy recycling in the food supply chain.
• Review and update the UK agriculture MACC to assess the abatement potential for the 5th carbon budget period and to 2050, Committee on Climate Change (2015)
  Assessing the cost-effective agricultural greenhouse gas mitigation potential in the UK between 2012 and 2032.
• Mainstreaming climate change into rural development policy post 2013, European Commission DG Climate Action (2014)
  Support the implementation of climate change related policies in the EU Rural Development Programmes (RDPs) 2014-2020.

Teaching

I contribute to the MSc Ecological Economics course with dissertation supervision, occasional lectures and marking.

PhD students

• Jessica Finan
  Spatial econometric modelling of land use systems and ecosystem services
• Jorie Knook
  Evaluation of participatory extension prgrammes relaed to climate change mitigation activities in the agricultural sector in Scotland and New Zealand
• Jay Burns
  Modelling short and long-term resilience and effeciency of cattle production
• Noha Mahmoud
  The socioeconomic and environmental aspects of agriculture: a spatial perspective on changing production practices

Selected publications

• Eory, V., S. Pellerin, G. Carmona Garcia, H. Lehtonen, I. Licite, H. Mattila, T. Lund-Sørensen, J. Muldowney, D. Popluga, L. Strandmark, and R. Schulte (2018) Marginal abatement cost curves for agricultural climate policy: State-of-the art, lessons learnt and future potential. Journal of Cleaner Production 182:705-716.
• Dittrich, R., A. Wreford, C.F.E. Topp, V. Eory, D. Moran (2017) A guide towards climate change adaptation in the livestock sector: adaptation options and the role of robust decision-making tools for their economic appraisal. Regional Environmental Change 17(6): 1701-1712.
• Glenk, K., V. Eory, A. Barnes, S. Colombo (2014) Adoption of greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture: an analysis of dairy farmers' preferences and adoption behaviour. Ecological Economics.  108:49-58.
• Eory, V., C.F.E. Topp, and D. Moran (2013) Multiple-pollutant cost-effectiveness of greenhouse gas mitigation measures in the UK agriculture. Environmental Science & Policy. 27:55-67.
• MacLeod, M., D. Moran, V. Eory, R.M. Rees, A. Barnes, C.F.E. Topp, B. Ball, S. Hoad, E. Wall, A. McVittie, G. Pajot, R. Matthews, P. Smith, and A. Moxey (2010) Developing greenhouse gas marginal abatement cost curves for agricultural emissions from crops and soils in the UK. Agricultural Systems. 103:198-209

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