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Professor Pete Falloon

BSc, MSc, PhD

  • BS8 1TQ

  • BS8 1SS

    United Kingdom

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Research interests

Pete Falloon (FRMetS, FRSA) is Professor of Climate Resilient Food Systems in the School of Biological Sciences. His research interests are in climate change and food systems. He is co-lead of the Cabot Institute theme on Food Security.

Pete has over 25 years of experience in modelling environmental systems, particularly the impacts of climate and land use change on agriculture, water, and soils. He is a contributing author to the UK’s Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) and a member of the Global Food Security Programme’s Programme Coordination Group board and supported the UK government in the IPCC Working Group 2 approval phase as part of the UK delegation.

He has a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Science of the Earth and Atmosphere from the University of Reading, and worked on modelling pesticide fate in riverine systems during an MSc (Research) and part-time lectureship the University of Greenwich. Pete moved to Rothamsted Research in 1996, where he worked on modelling soil, climate and vegetation interactions for 8 years and was awarded a PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2001.

He has written numerous peer-reviewed papers and book chapters on soil carbon dynamics, land use change and the impacts of climate change, and given many invited and offered presentations both in the UK and internationally, and worked for, and led science teams delivering to a wide range of government, industry and research customers.

Pete has also been working at the Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Science and Services since 2004, is currently the Met Office Science Lead - Food Seciruty, and leads the Met Office's Climate Service for Defra on Food, Farming and Natural Environment for Defra. He is also Sustainability Director at Food Drink Devon, which exists to promote quality, provenance and sustainability in Devon produce. He is also an Honorary Associate at the Walker Institute.

The list of publication outputs only provides those with Bristol affiliation and a few others at present - for a full list see the ResearchGate link below.

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Research Groups and Themes

  • Cabot Institute Food Security Research
  • Cabot Institute Environmental Change Research
  • Cabot Institute Natural Hazards and Disasters Research
  • Cabot Institute Water Research

Keywords

  • climate change
  • climate change adaptation
  • Climate modelling
  • climate impacts
  • food systems
  • Agriculture
  • soils
  • Water Resources
  • ecosystems
  • Carbon cycle
  • environmental change
  • Environment
  • Interdisciplinary
  • policy engagement
  • industry engagement
  • Food Security
  • Food and agriculture
  • Climate services

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