Dr. Kathy Lewis BSc PhD MIEMA FIAP
Reader in agri-environmental science
Email: k.a.lewis@herts.ac.uk
Tel.: +44 (0)1707 284582
Kathy is research leader for the Agriculture and Environment
Research Unit. She joined the University in 1995 and established AERU soon after. Kathy
became a Reader in Agri-Environmental Science in 2001.
Kathy's main areas of interest include environmental management of
agriculture, horticulture and land-use, in particular environmental pollution and the
impacts arising from agricultural processes taking a whole farm perspective. She is also
involved in the development of techniques to encourage a more sustainable agriculture
including the socio-economic aspects, rural development, policy issues and green taxes.
Kathy's work covers a wide spectrum of topics including pesticides, nutrients, waste and
resources and biodiversity. This has evolved over the years to cover the entire farm to
fork production chain particularly with respect to policy development.
Kathy is a Fellow of the Institute of Analysts and Programmers
(FIAP) and a Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (MIEMA).
Qualifications
Kathy's first degree in computer science was awarded by the
Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA), and her PhD in agricultural best practice and
was awarded by the University of Hertfordshire.
Previous employment
Before joining the University of Hertfordshire, Kathy spent 23
years at Warren Spring Laboratory and 1 year in Industry working as an Environmental
Manager.
Selected projects
- The climate change mitigation potential of an EU farm: towards a
farm-based integrated assessment
- Assessment of reduction in environmental burdens through targeted
measures compared with whole farm approaches in cropping and livestock systems
- Developing software tools for pesticide risk assessment for the EU
FOOTPRINT Project
- Comparison of the Environmental Risk of Pesticides used in
Conventional and Integrated Farming Systems for Farms
- Concerted Action of Pesticide Environmental Risk Indicators (CAPER)
- Countryside Access
- Development of an On-Farm Risk Assessment System for Pesticide Use
for Farms
- Development of Environmental Banding for the Government's Proposed
Pesticide Tax
- Environmental Auditing of the Hardy Nursery Stock Sector
- OECD Research Fellowship: Comparing Effect-based and Means-based
Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment in Agriculture
Recent publications
- Tzilivakis, J., Lewis, K.A., Green, A. and Warner, D.J. (2011). A
Novel Technique for Identifying Environmental Outcomes from Agricultural Practices. Impact
Assessment and Project Appraisal, 29(1): 2-10. DOI.
- Warner, D. J., Davies, M., Hipps, N., Osborne, N., Tzilivakis, J.
and Lewis, K. A. (2010). Greenhouse gas emissions and energy use in UK-grown short-day
strawberry (Fragaria xananassa Duch) crops. Journal of Agricultural Science,
148(6): 667-681.
- Lewis, K.A., Green, A., Tzilivakis, J. and Warner, D.J. (2010). The
contribution of UK farm assurance schemes towards desirable environmental policy outcomes.
International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 8(4): 237–249.
- Coles, A.J., Lewis, K.A. and Sims, R. (2009). Observing novel soil
conditioners for carbon emissions mitigation. International Journal of Climate Change
Strategies and Management, 1(3), 255-273.
- 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., Højberg, A., Hollis, J., Jarvis, N., Kajewski, I., Kjær,
J., Krasnicki, S., Lewis, K., Lobnik, F., Lolos, P., Moeys, J., Nolan, T., Rasmussen, P.,
Réal, B., Reichenberger, S., Šinkovec, M., Stenemo, F., Suhadolic, M., Surdyk, N.,
Tzilivakis, J., Vaudour, T., Avoulidou-Theodorou, E., Windhorst, E. and Wurm, D. (2009). The
FOOTPRINT Software Tools: Pesticide Risk Assessment and Management in the EU at different
spatial scales. Presented at CEMEPE & SECOTOX June 2009, Mykonos, Greece.
- Lewis, K.A. (2009). FOOTPRINT Pesticide Properties Database: why
and how it was developed and its future role in environmental risk assessments.
Invited paper presented at 238th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Washington
DC, August 16-20th 2009.
- Tzilivakis, J., Green, A. and Lewis, K.A. (2009). The FOOT-FS
software system: An overview. Presented at the FOOTPRINT Final Conference, Giessen,
Germany, 18-19 March 2009.
- Green, A., Lewis, K.A. and Tzilivakis, J. (2009). Pesticide
Properties Database: An overview. Presented at the FOOTPRINT Final Conference,
Giessen, Germany, 18-19 March 2009.
- Lewis, K.A., Green, A. and Tzilivakis, J. (2009). Pesticide
Properties Database: Usage and Uptake. Presented at the FOOTPRINT Final Conference,
Giessen, Germany, 18-19 March 2009.
- Lewis K.A., Tzilivakis J, Green, A., Warner, D.J. and Coles A.J.
(2008) Farm Assurance Schemes – Can they improve farming standards? British Food
Journal In press.
- Coles, A.J.C., Sims, R.E.H. and Lewis, K.A. (2008). Woody
Biomass Energy Crops: possibilities for physical and biological carbon sequestration.
Poster presented at Agriculture and the Environment VII, Land Management in a Changing
Environment, 26-27 March 2008, Edinburgh.
Dr. Kathy Lewis's extended publications
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