While my specialism is soil science, I have a background in broad spectrum environmental sciences, including climate change, the carbon cycle and land use. My MSc subject was natural resource assessment for rural development planning and involved fieldwork in Trinidad. My PhD consisted of an experimental study of biochar. My professional experience includes soil survey, teaching, research and several years in IT systems. Now semi-retired, my current focus is on soil governance and sustainable land use, e.g. agroecology, agroforestry, etc.. I was recently contracted by Defra as a soil surveyor within the England Ecosystem Survey. I am a member of the FAO Global Soil Partnership (GSP) Working Group on Soil Legislation.
Lewis Peake
Research Associate
Selected Publications
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Selected Publications
Latawiec, A. E., Peake, L., Baxter, H., Cornelissen, G., Hale, S., Krolczyk, J., Kubon, M., Lopatka, A., Agnieszka Medynska-Juraszek, Reid, B., Siebielec, G., Sohi, S., Spiak, Z., & Strassburg, B. 2017. A reconnaissance-scale GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis for biochar use to support sustainable agriculture: Poland as a case study. Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management, 25:2, 208-222.
Giannopoulos, G., Peake, L., Reid, B., Andrews, J., Grant, A., Lorenzoni, I., Goulden, M., Waters, J., Dolphin, Tony, Bremner, J. & Tolhurst, T. 2015. Environmental and social impacts of the 2013 Storm Surge on the North Norfolk coast. In: Soils and regolith: from parent rock to critical resource. February, 2015, Natural History Museum.
Peake, L., Reid, B. & Tang, X. 2014. Quantifying the influence of biochar on the physical and hydrological properties of dissimilar soils. Geoderma 235–236:182–190.
Peake, L., Freddo, A. and Reid, B. 2014. Sustaining soils and mitigating climate change using biochar. In: A. Des Las Heras and T. R. Macagno (eds.) Sustainability Science and Technology: An Introduction, Chapter 7, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis.
Peake L. 2010. The invisible superpower: A review of the geopolitical status of Kushite (25th dynasty) Egypt at the height of its power and a historiographic analysis of the regime’s legacy. In: Godlewski W, Latjar A, editors. Between the Cataracts: Proceedings of the 11th Conference for Nubian Studies: Warsaw University; 2006. pp. 465–476.
Peake, L. 1990. A generic model of knowledge-based system tools. In: Addis, T R & Muir, R M. 1990. Research and Development in Expert Systems VII: Proceedings of Expert Systems 90. Presented at ES 90 Conference.
Stocking, M. A. & Peake, L. 1986. Crop yield losses from the erosion of Alfisols. Tropical Agriculture (Trinidad) 63 (1): 41-45.
Peake, L. 1986. Erosion, crop yields and time: a reassessment of quantitative relationships. Discussion Paper 191, School of Development Studies, UEA, Norwich.
Stocking, M. A. & Peake, L. 1985. Erosion-induced loss in soil productivity: trends in research and international co-operation. Paper to the IVth International Conference on Soil Erosion and Conservation, Maracay, Venezuela. November, 1985.
Other
1986
Crop yield losses from the erosion of alfisols Journal Article
In: Tropical Agriculture, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 41–45, 1986, ISSN: 0041-3216.
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By popular demand: what people want from a resource efficient economy Journal Article
In: 0000, ISBN: 978-1-912393-16-9.
