Browsing Research publications by Author "Tzilivakis, J."
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Assessing the environmental impact of different crop protection strategies
Tzilivakis, J.; Turley, D.B.; Lewis, Kathleen; Ogilvy, S.E.; Lawson, K. (2004)In 1993, a project was established to develop more sustainable arable farming systems. Fields were divided into two plots to compare the environmental and economic performance of conventional and integrated farming systems ... -
An assessment of the energy inputs and greenhouse gas emissions in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) production in the UK
Tzilivakis, J.; Warner, D.; May, M.; Lewis, Kathleen; Jaggard, K. (2005)Reducing the energy derived from fossil fuels within agricultural systems has important implications for decreasing atmospheric emissions of greenhouse gases, thus assisting the arrest of global warming. The identification ... -
The contribution of UK farm assurance schemes towards desirable environmental policy outcomes
Lewis, Kathleen; Green, A.; Tzilivakis, J.; Warner, D. (2010)This study sought to evaluate the content of a range of UK primary production assurance schemes and their potential to support selected desirable agri-environmental policy outcomes. The schemes reviewed included those that ... -
Decision support for optimising energy consumption in European greenhouses
Korner, O.; Warner, D.; Tzilivakis, J.; Eveleens, B.; Heuvelink, E. (2008)Improving existing greenhouse structures in terms of insulation and other features can save energy with significantly lower investment costs than building new greenhouses. Within the EU Framework VI project GREENERGY a ... -
Developing an emissions inventory from farm data
Lewis, Kathleen; Newbold, M.; Tzilivakis, J. (1999)Development of an emissions inventory is frequently incorporated into many techniques and methodologies used in determining environmental impact, for example life-cycle assessment and as part of the review procedures ... -
The development and use of farm-level indicators in England
Tzilivakis, J.; Lewis, Kathleen (2004)In recent years the concept of ‘sustainability indicators’ has become important within agricultural policy development. However, as policy tools, many indicators are highly technical in nature and often appear relevant ... -
Environmental impact and economic assessment for UK sugar beet production systems
Tzilivakis, J.; Jaggard, K.; Lewis, Kathleen; May, M.; Warner, D. (2005-05-30)This project evaluated the environmental impact and economic viability of a range of sugar beet production systems in the UK. The study used 13 sugar beet production scenarios representative of those used throughout the ... -
Environmental impacts of farm scenarios according to five assessment methods
van der Werf, H.M.G.; Tzilivakis, J.; Lewis, Kathleen; Basset-Mens, C. (2007)It is not known to what extent the outcome of studies assessing the environmental impacts of agricultural systems depends on the characteristics of the evaluation method used. The study reported here investigated five ... -
Evaluating a technique used to measure environmental performance within agriculture–case studies
Lewis, Kathleen; Tzilivakis, J. (1998)A methodology has been developed which can be used to assess the environmental performance of a farm. The computer-based system, known as EMA, utilizes a checklist auditing process based on both quantitative and qualitative ... -
Farm assurance schemes : can they improve farming standards?
Lewis, Kathleen; Tzilivakis, J.; Green, A.; Warner, D.; Coles, A. (2008)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the global activities, highlighting the UK, concerned with farm assurance schemes and associated food labelling seeking to identify their contribution towards improving ... -
The FOOTPRINT software tools: pesticide risk assessment and management in the EU at different spatial scales.
Dubus, I.; Azimonti, G.; Bach, M.; Barriuso, E.; Bidoglio, G.; Bouraoui, F.; Centofanti, T.; Coquet, Y.; Feisel, B.; Fialkiewicz, W.; Fowler, H.; Galimberti, F.; Grizzetti, B.; Hojberg, A.; Hollis, J.; Jarvis, N.; Kajewski, I.; Kjaer, J.; Krasnicki, S.; Lewis, Kathleen; Lobnik, F.; Lolos, P.; Moeys, J.; Nolan, T.; Rasmussen, P.; Real, B.; Reichenberger, S.; Sinkovec, M.; Stenemo, F.; Suhadolic, M.; Surdyk, N.; Tzilivakis, J.; Vaudour, E.; Avoulidou-Theodorou, E.; Windhorst, D. (Aristotele University Thessaloniki, 2009)In the EU-project FOOTPRINT three pesticide risk assessment and management tools were developed, for use at different spatial scales. The three FOOTPRINT tools share the same underlying science, based on the consistent ... -
Greenhouse gas emissions and energy use in UK-grown short-day strawberry (Fragaria xananassa Duch) crops
Warner, D.; Davies, M.; Hipps, N.; Osborne, N.; Tzilivakis, J.; Lewis, Kathleen (2010)Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and optimizing energy consumption are important for mitigating climate change and improving resource use efficiency. Strawberry (Fragaria xananassa Duch) crops are a key component of the ... -
A Novel Technique for Identifying Environmental Outcomes from Agricultural Practices
Tzilivakis, J.; Lewis, Kathleen; Green, A.; Warner, D. (2011-03)There are a wide range of techniques that can be used for evaluating environmental impacts of agriculture, but they have not previously been used to identify the contribution individual farming activities make toward ... -
Options for informal environmental management : the agricultural industry highlighted
Newbold, J.; Lewis, Kathleen; Tzilivakis, J.; Finch, J.; Kaho, T.M.; Skinner, J.A.; Bardon, K.S. (1997)Discussions are frequently found in the environmental press regarding the possible advantages to an organisation should they implement a formal environmental management system such as BS 7750, ISO 14001 and the EC ... -
p-EMA (II): evaluating ecological risks of pesticides for a farm-level risk assessment system
Hart, A.; Brown, C.D.; Lewis, Kathleen; Tzilivakis, J. (2003)This paper reports the development of methods for assessing the environmental risks of pesticide use in a farm-level evaluation tool. The basic risk indices that were used, and the criteria used to define different levels ... -
p-EMA (III): overview and application of a software system designed to assess the environmental risk of agricultural pesticides
Lewis, Kathleen; Brown, C.D.; Hart, A.; Tzilivakis, J. (2003-02-28)A new risk assessment system for pesticides has been developed for use by a wide variety of end-users from agronomists to farmers. This system replaces the old, predominately hazard-based approach that was originally used ... -
A prototype framework for assessing risks to soil functions
Tzilivakis, J.; Lewis, Kathleen; Williamson, A.R. (2005) -
The role of the EMA software in integrated crop management and its commercial uptake
Lewis, Kathleen; Tzilivakis, J. (2000)Integrated crop management (ICM) balances the issues of profitability and sustainability with the need for concern for the environmental as a whole. As such, it requires sound decision-making based on detailed knowledge ... -
A strategic environmental assessment method for agricultural policy in the UK
Tzilivakis, J.; Broom, C.; Lewis, Kathleen; Tucker, P.; Drummond, C.; Cook, R. (1999)There are a number of significant environmental impacts that arise from agricultural practices that may be influenced by policy. A Strategic Environmental Assessment Method (SEAM) is described which aims to assess the ...