Department of Agroecology

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Carbon footprint of Danish agricultural land use

Main subject area: Geography, Environmental impacts, Denmark

Short project description

Building on the GIS information available at the field scale in Denmark this project would include connecting land use with estimated carbon footprints which can be used to develop different agricultural land use scenarios.

Department and supervisor

Tiffanie Faye Stone

Postdoc
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Project start

Summer/Autumn 2025 depending on ECTS

Physical location of project and students work

Department of Agroecology, Section of Agricultural Systems and Sustainability

Extent and type of project

30 ECTS: Theoretical thesis based on literature studies and/or analysis of issued and edited data sets.

45 ECTS: Experimental theses in which the student is responsible for collection and analysis of his/her own original data

60 ECTS: Experimental theses in which the student is responsible for planning, trial design and collection and analysis of his/her own original data

Additional information

No prerequisites. Suggest readings:

Stone, T. F., Thompon, J. R., Zimmerman, E., Brighenti, T., & Liebman, M. (2024). What would it look like? Visualizing a future US Corn Belt landscape with more table food production. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 39, e5. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742170524000024

Stone, T. F., Thompson, J. R., Rosentrater, K. A., & Liebman M. (2023). Modeling a Localized Metropolitan Food System in the Midwest USA: Life Cycle Impacts of Scenarios for Des Moines, Iowa. Science of the Total Environment, 865:15065. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.161095

Revised 13.11.2025
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Jonathan Torp Henschel