RESEARCH PROFILE

Main area of interest is the interaction between agriculture, horticulture and the environment. Specific research includes:

• environmental accounting (carbon, water and environmental footprinting, mass and energy balances)
• greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture
• ecosystem services
• composting, anaerobic digestion and the application of organic materials to agricultural land
• nitrogen balances in agriculture
• the nitrogen nutrition of crops and the release of nitrogen from crop residues

TEACHING PROFILE

Courses Taught

• LF202 Quantifying Environmental Impacts
  Contributor to 2nd year BSc course on Environmental Biology
• HR922 - Organic and Low Input Systems [details]
  Contributor to Module for MSc Environmental Bioscience in a Changing Climate
• HR925 - Bioenergy and biorefining [details]
  Contributor to Module for MSc Environmental Bioscience in a Changing Climate
• HR919 - Environmental Accounting and Ecosystem Services [details]
  Module leader for MSc Environmental Bioscience in a Changing Climate
• HR933 The Challenges of Global Food Security
  Contributor to the MSc Course on Food Security

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• To produce methodology for assessing the environmental economic and social characteristics of (organic and non-organic) farming systems, with - University of Warwick - University of Warwick - University of Warwick - University of Warwick - University of Warwick, Funded by: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Project Start Date: 01/08/2009 Project End Date: 31/07/2012 [details]
  
  

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Connor A, Lillywhite R & Cooke MW(2011) 'The carbon footprints of home and in-center maintenance hemodialysis in the United Kingdon. Hemodialysis International.' 15 (1), 39 - 51 [article]
• Lillywhite, R.(2010) 'Footprinting methods for assessment of the environmental impacts of food production and processing' in Environmental assessment and management in the food industry: life cycle assessment and related approaches, 255 - 271, Editors: Sonesson, U., Berlin, J. and Ziegler, F. (9781845695521), Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing
• Rahn, C. R., Zhang, K., Lillywhite, R., Ramos, C., Doltra, J., De Pas, J. M., Riley, H., Fink, M., Nendel, C., Thorup-Kristensen, K., Pedersen, A., Piro, F., Venezia, A., Firth, C., Schmutz, U., Rayns, F., and Strohmeyer, K.(2010) 'EU-Rotate_N - a decision support system - to predict environmental and economic consequences of the management of nitrogen fertiliser in crop rotations' European Journal of Horticultural Science 75 (1), (1611-4426) [article]
• Connor A, Lillywhite R & Cooke MW(2010) 'The carbon footprint of a renal service in the United Kingdom. Quarterly Journal of Medicine' 103 965 - 975 [article]
• Lillywhite, R. D., Dimambro, M. E. and Rahn, C. R.(2009) 'Effect of five municipal waste derived composts on a cereal crop' Compost Science & Utilization 17 (3), 173 - 179 (1065-657X)

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