Dr. Doug Warner BSc MSc PhD
PIEMA FHEA
Associate Professor Research
Email: d.j.warner@herts.ac.uk
Tel.: +44 (0)1707 286075
Doug joined the Agriculture
and the Environment Research Unit (AERU) as a Research Fellow in July
2001. His main areas of interest are agricultural greenhouse gas
emissions and their mitigation, carbon sequestration, integrated farm
management and ecologically based methods of pest control, precision
agriculture and farmland bio-diversity and conservation.
Since 2001 he has been
involved in several national and European projects undertaking carbon
footprinting, life-cycle analysis, and environmental impact and
sustainability assessments. Recent activities include the
modelling of spatially explicit greenhouse gas emissions in European
agricultural systems, and their application for assessing the impact of
European Rural Development Programmes on greenhouse gas mitigation and
the development of carbon footprinting tools. Other experience includes
the evaluation of the impact of insecticides on non-target organisms,
herbicide dispersal on hard surfaces in urban environments, ecological
monitoring, applied conservation habitat management and insect taxonomy.
Qualifications
Doug has a BSc in
Environmental Biology from the University of Sunderland, an MSc in Crop
Protection from the Scottish Agricultural College (University of
Aberdeen), and a PhD from the University of Hertfordshire in
collaboration with IACR-Rothamsted titled "The Potential of Carabidae
in the Control of Insect Pests of Winter Oilseed Rape". His Doctorate
studied naturally occurring beneficial insects as pest control agents
in winter oilseed rape and the implications for Integrated Pest
Management systems. Doug is also an IEMA (Institute of Environmental
Management and Assessment) Practitioner, and a Fellow of the Higher
Education Academy (HEA).
Previous employment
Doug has worked previously as
a group leader with the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, a
warden with English Nature and as an insect taxonomist at
IACR-Rothamsted.
Selected projects
- Measuring the extent to which greenhouse gas
emission savings achieved by Environmental Stewardship are displaced
on-farm
- OSCAR - Optimal Strategies for Climate change
Action in Rural areas
- A land carbon management
plan for the Wallington estate
- Climate change mitigation
potential of farms in the EU:
IMPACCT
- Sustainable urban weed
management
- Impact Of Proposed NVZ
Action Programme On Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Department for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2007 - 2008)
- Research into the current
and potential climate change mitigation impacts of environmental
stewardship (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2006 -
2007)
- Energy Optimisation in
European Greenhouses - GREENERGY (European Union Framework VI, 2005 -
2008)
- The Environmental Impact
of Horticultural Practices in the EA's Southern Region (Environment
Agency, 2006)
- Sustainability of the UK
Strawberry Crop (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,
2003 - 2005)
- Genetic Diversity in
Agriculture: Temporal Flux, Sustainable Productivity and Food Security
'GEDIFLUX' (European Union Framework V, 2004)
- An Investigation of
Varietal Characteristics Required for Sustainable Agriculture
(Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2003)
- Management Strategies for
European Rape Pests (MASTER) (European Union Framework V, 2002 - 2005)
- Environment and Energy
Impact Assessment for Sugar Beet Production Systems (British Beet
Research Organisation, 2001 - 2003)
Recent publications
- Mondière, A., Tzilivakis, J., Warner, D.J., van der Werf, H.M.G., Farruggia, A., Glinec, O. & Corson, M.S (2022). An improved indicator framework to assess and optimise ecosystem services provided by permanent grasslands. Ecological Indicators, 146, 109765. DOI.
- Tzilivakis, J., Warner, D., Green, A., & Lewis, K.A. (2021). A broad-scale spatial analysis of the environmental benefits of fertiliser closed periods implemented under the Nitrates Directive in Europe. Journal of Environmental Management, 299: 113674. DOI.
- Wilkes, T.I., Warner, D.J., Edmonds-Brown, V., Davies, K.G. & Denholm, I. (2021). Zero tillage systems conserve arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, enhancing soil glomalin and water stable aggregates with implications for soil stability. Soil Systems, 5(1): 4. DOI.
- Tzilivakis, J., Green, A., Warner, D.J. & Lewis, K.A. (2020). Identification of approaches and measures in action programmes under Directive 91/676/EEC. Final report. Report prepared for Directorate-General Environment, European Commission, for project ENV.D.1/SER/2018/0017 by the Agriculture and Environment Research Unit (AERU), University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. [Download].
- Tzilivakis, J., Green, A., Warner, D.J. & Lewis, K.A. (2020). Identification of approaches and measures in action programmes under Directive 91/676/EEC. Final report: Annex A: Comparison of implementation and environmental characterisation of NAP measures. Report prepared for Directorate-General Environment, European Commission, for project ENV.D.1/SER/2018/0017 by the Agriculture and Environment Research Unit (AERU), University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. [Download].
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