Overview

Allan is an economist, researcher, and educator with a keen interest in complex systems. Trained as an agricultural economist I have worked as an economist and researcher at the University of Exeter and Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), and a senior Lecturer in Economics at the Royal Agricultural University.  I am presently an economist with the Environment Agency in the Strategic Economic Evidence team working on diverse projects including Natural Capital, Industrial Emissions Directive, Flooding and Mental Health and creating decision-making tools.  Philosophically, I am a strong advocate of systems thinking and complexity and as such developed a post-graduate module based around these ideas, as well as models that capture spaces between order and chaos.

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Projects

• The Evaluation of Key Factors that Lead to Successful Agri-Environment Co-Operative Schemes - funded by: University of Gloucestershire - Countryside and Community research Institute

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Publications

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| To Appear | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 |

To Appear

• Butler AJ. Critiquing the conceptual basis of sustainability appraisal: lessons for assessing the impact of increasing rural land-use under biomass, Environmental Impact Assessment Review.

2011

• Butler AJ, Del Prado A, Misselbrook T, Chadwick D, Hopkins A, Dewhurst RJ, Schroder J, Scholefield D. (2011) SIMSDAIRY: A modelling framework to identify sustainable dairy farms in the UK. Framework description and test for organic systems and N fertiliser optimisation, Science of the Total Environment, volume 409, no. 19, pages 3993-4009, DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.05.050.

2010

• Butler AJ. (2010) Butler AJ (2010) The good, the bad and the ugly: lessons from biogas plant planning applications, ROOTS 2010: Plumpton College, East Sussex, 13th-14th April 2010, Roots 2010, Plumpton College, Sussex, 13th Apr 2010 - 14th Apr 2011.
• Butler AJ, Lobley M, Winter M. (2010) Economic impact assessment of Bovine Tuberculosis in the South West of England, University of Exeter, 68 pages. [PDF]
• Lobley M, Butler AJ. (2010) The impact of CAP reform on farmers' plans for the future: some evidence from South West England, Food Policy, volume 35, no. 4, pages 341-348, DOI:10.1016/j.foodpol.2010.04.001.

2009

• Butler AJ, Oliver D, Chadwick D, Fish R, Winter M, Hodgson C, Heathwaite L. (2009) Modelling the mitigation mix: faecal microbes, economic constraints and sustainable land management, Agricultural Economic Society 83rd Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 31st Mar - 1st Apr 2009.
• Lobley M, Butler AJ, Reed M. (2009) The contribution of organic farming to rural development: an exploration of the socio-economic linkages of organic and non-organic farms in England, Land Use Policy, volume 26, no. 3, pages 723-735, DOI:10.1016/j.landusepol.2008.09.007.

2008

• Butler AJ, Hobbs B, Stevens B, Winter M. (2008) Expanding anaerobic digestion plants in the UK: the challenges of perception and planning, 10th ROOTS Rural Research Conference, Trinity College, Oxford, 17th - 18th Mar 2008.
• Butler AJ, Winter M. (2008) Trends in agricultural tenure in England and Wales 1990 to 2007, RICS Research.
• Reed M, Butler AJ, Lobley M. (2008) Growing Sustainable Communities - Understanding the social and economic footprints of organic family farms, Creating food futures: trade, ethics, and the environment, 67-78.
• Butler AJ, Winter M. (2008) Agricultural Tenure 2007, Centre for Rural Policy Research, University of Exeter. [PDF]

2007

• Butler AJ, Turner MM. (2007) Modelling integrated dairy systems in the UK: towards economic and environmental sustainability, Agricultural Economics Society 81st Annual Conference, University Of Reading, 2nd - 4th Apr 2007.
• Butler AJ, Lobley M. (2007) Farming in Devon: Changes since 2002 and developments in the near future, Centre for Rural Policy Research, University of Exeter. [PDF]
• Butler AJ, Butler, AJ, Le Grice P, Reed M. (2007) Vocational Training: Trust, Talk and Knowledge Transfer in Small Businesses, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, volume 14, no. 2, pages 280-293, DOI:10.1108/14626000710746709.
• Lobley M, Butler AJ. (2007) Advice to farmers and land managers in the Culm grassland area, Centre for Rural Policy Research, University of Exeter, 24 pages. [PDF]

2006

• Butler AJ, Le Grice P, Reed M. (2006) Delimiting knowledge transfer from training, Education + Training, volume 48, no. 8/9, pages 627-641, DOI:10.1108/00400910610710056. [PDF]

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