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Modelling the impact of wastewater flows and management practices on antimicrobial resistance in dairy farms (2024)
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Dairy slurry is a major source of environmental contamination with antimicrobial resistant genes and bacteria. We developed mathematical models and conducted on-farm research to explore the impact of wastewater flows and management practices on antim... Read More about Modelling the impact of wastewater flows and management practices on antimicrobial resistance in dairy farms.

Mainstreaming social sciences expertise in UK environment policy and practice organisations: retrospect and prospect (2024)
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Building upon the concept of mainstreaming social sciences within conservation, we consider their mainstreaming, and so integration, within UK environment policy and practice (EPP) organisations. The paper responds to increasing calls to recognise th... Read More about Mainstreaming social sciences expertise in UK environment policy and practice organisations: retrospect and prospect.

Biochar carbon markets: A mitigation deterrence threat (2024)
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This article aims to add to the emerging empirical mitigation deterrence literature by drawing on ongoing research into a particular form of greenhouse gas removal technology – biochar – and associated biochar carbon markets. As such, the aim of this... Read More about Biochar carbon markets: A mitigation deterrence threat.

Biochar in the British print news media: an analysis of promissory discourse and the creation of expectations about carbon removal (2023)
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Biochar is amongst a growing suite of approaches developed to address the climate crisis by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; yet public awareness of biochar is low. In this situation, mass-media reporting plays an important role in making... Read More about Biochar in the British print news media: an analysis of promissory discourse and the creation of expectations about carbon removal.

Searching for the “politics of the possible” in flexitarianism (2023)
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The paper builds on recent flexitarianism scholarship by approaching this heterogeneous dietary category as a socio-cultural and political economic, rather than just a psychological phenomenon. It does this by drawing on Edmund Harris’s conceptualiza... Read More about Searching for the “politics of the possible” in flexitarianism.

Antimicrobial resistance in dairy slurry tanks: a critical point for measurement and control (2022)
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Waste from dairy production is one of the largest sources of contamination from antimicrobial resistant bacteria (ARB) and genes (ARGs) in many parts of the world. However, studies to date do not provide necessary evidence to inform antimicrobial res... Read More about Antimicrobial resistance in dairy slurry tanks: a critical point for measurement and control.

Assembling antimicrobial resistance governance in UK animal agriculture (2022)
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The desire to govern antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in animal agriculture has gained renewed prominence in the UK and international policy and practice in response to growing concern about the impact of AMR infections on human and animal health. This... Read More about Assembling antimicrobial resistance governance in UK animal agriculture.

Governing plant-centred eating at the urban scale in the UK: The Sustainable Food Cities network and the reframing of dietary biopower (2021)
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Recent years have seen an increase in actions to address a key feature of food in the Anthropocene: the over-production and consumption of animal-based foods or “animalisation” of diets. However, it is unclear whether such efforts can be understood a... Read More about Governing plant-centred eating at the urban scale in the UK: The Sustainable Food Cities network and the reframing of dietary biopower.

Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems (2021)
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Increasingly high-profile research is being undertaken into the socio-environmental challenges associated with the over-production and consumption of food from animals. Transforming food systems to mitigate climate change and hidden hunger, ensure fo... Read More about Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems.

Antibiotic stewardship and its implications for agricultural animal-human relationships: Insights from an intensive dairy farm in England (2020)
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The concept of antibiotic stewardship has recently gained prominence in UK and EU policy and practice as part of wider efforts to reduce antibiotic use in agriculture and respond to concerns about antimicrobial resistance. The purpose of the paper is... Read More about Antibiotic stewardship and its implications for agricultural animal-human relationships: Insights from an intensive dairy farm in England.

Can resistant infections be perceptible in UK dairy farming? (2019)
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This paper interrogates the claim that antimicrobial resistant infections are rarely encountered in animal agriculture. This has been widely reiterated by a range of academic, policy and industry stakeholders in the UK. Further support comes from the... Read More about Can resistant infections be perceptible in UK dairy farming?.

Participatory research approaches to integrating scientific and farmer knowledge of soil to meet multiple objectives in the English East Midlands (2019)
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Soil management influences food production, economic performance of farm businesses, and a range of public benefits such as water quality, flood control and aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity. The aim of this paper is to explore the role of part... Read More about Participatory research approaches to integrating scientific and farmer knowledge of soil to meet multiple objectives in the English East Midlands.

Rage against the regime: niche-regime interactions in the societal embedding of plant-based milk (2018)
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This paper engages with the debate on niche-regime interactions in sustainability transitions, using a study of plant-based milk and its struggles against the entrenched liquid dairy-milk regime, which has various sustainability problems. Plant-based... Read More about Rage against the regime: niche-regime interactions in the societal embedding of plant-based milk.

Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification (2018)
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© 2018, The Author(s). The sustainable intensification of agricultural systems offers synergistic opportunities for the co-production of agricultural and natural capital outcomes. Efficiency and substitution are steps towards sustainable intensificat... Read More about Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification.

Openness to social science knowledges? The politics of disciplinary collaboration within the field of UK food security research (2018)
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This paper explores a form of knowledge politics played out within and between universities and research institutes as sites of certified disciplinary expertise in the agro-food domain. It investigates the ‘openness’ of this domain to the expertise o... Read More about Openness to social science knowledges? The politics of disciplinary collaboration within the field of UK food security research.

Yellow-sticker shopping as competent, creative consumption (2018)
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This paper presents the preliminary findings of an empirical study into a specific and novel form of contemporary consumption: ‘yellow sticker shopping’. This type of consumption involves the active targeting for purchase of food products that have b... Read More about Yellow-sticker shopping as competent, creative consumption.

Exploring the spatialities of technological and user re-scripting: the case of decision support tools in UK agriculture (2018)
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The use of decision support tools on-farm may help to deliver evidence-based guidance to farmers, helping to improve productivity and prevent environmental degradation. While much research has sought to increase the uptake of decision support tools i... Read More about Exploring the spatialities of technological and user re-scripting: the case of decision support tools in UK agriculture.

‘Taking the politics out of broccoli’: debating (de)meatification in UK national and regional newspaper coverage of the Meat Free Mondays campaign (2017)
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This paper addresses UK society’s relationship with meat and specifically explores the extent to which a process of ‘de-meatification’ is underway in this context and one of the mechanisms involved. It does so through analysis of reporting of the Mea... Read More about ‘Taking the politics out of broccoli’: debating (de)meatification in UK national and regional newspaper coverage of the Meat Free Mondays campaign.

Framing the agricultural use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in UK national newspapers and the farming press (2016)
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Despite links to animal disease governance, food and biosecurity, rural studies has neglected consideration of how actors make sense of the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture and the implications for animal and human health. As antimicrobial re... Read More about Framing the agricultural use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in UK national newspapers and the farming press.

Viewing animal bodies: truths, practical aesthetics and ethical considerability in UK livestock breeding (2013)
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This paper focuses on the production of aesthetic ‘truths’ in UK livestock breeding, drawing on detailed qualitative research with breeders and breed societies. It extends emerging interest in the aesthetic in human geographical research, examining h... Read More about Viewing animal bodies: truths, practical aesthetics and ethical considerability in UK livestock breeding.