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Keith Matthews

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keith.matthews@hutton.ac.uk

The James Hutton Institute
Craigiebuckler
Aberdeen AB15 8QH
Scotland UK

Dr Matthews is a senior researcher with 19 years experience of working in, and leading, inter-disciplinary research across social, natural and computational sciences (9 years post-doctoral). Domains of interest include sustainable land use systems (at business, catchment, regional and National scales), climate change (risk, adaptation and mitigation) and the effectiveness of policy interventions. Expertise in the development of decision support systems is now being applied in developing processes of science-stakeholder and science-policy engagement. He is leading the team currently undertaking scenario analysis of option for reform of the CAP Single Farm Payment in collaboration with RERAD Analytical Services. He has also undertaken strategic, applied and policy led research for Scottish Government, DEFRA, RELU, and the EU. He is a reviewer for several journals, the European Science Foundation and Leverhulme Trust. He has been a member of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society and Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand since 2002.

Current research interests 

  • 2010 - IACS-GHGs - pilot project to determine the suitability of IACS data to provide land use change data for annual greenhouse gas estimates. RERAD with Aberdeen University and Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.
  • 2010 - CAP-Flattening - Modelling scenarios for CAP pillar 1 area payments using Macaulay LCA (and Less Favoured Area Designations) - RERAD - analysis of area based payment options in support of the Pack Inquiry.
  • 2009 - Model Ecosystem Framework - RERAD - scoping the use of ecosystem services approaches to the sustainable management of rural land use systems.
  • 2009 - Rural Land use Studies 1 and 2 - RERAD - spatial analysis of biophysical and socio-economic datasets to support baseline, trend and scenario analyses.
  • 2008 - Present - Aquarius: Farmers as Water Managers - Interreg IVb North Sea Region - Coordinator for Macaulay Institute - action research on river flow management under climate change - case study of natural flow management.
  • 2007-present - SMILE - EU FP7 SSH - Synergies in Multi-scale Inter-Linkages of Eco-social systems - developing cross-scale social-metabolism analyses using the Cairngorms National part as the case study.
  • 2006-present - Coordinator for Macaulay Institute in the Sustainable Farming Systems work package of the RERAD research programme Environment and Rural Stewardship - leading on ecosystem based sustainability assessment, resilience of land use systems and adaptation to climate change.
  • 2006-present - AGRIGRID: Methodological grids for payment calculations in rural development measures in the EU FP6 Specific Targeted Research Action - multi-scale analysis options for organic conversions and support payment.
  • 2007 C4LU - communicating climate change consequences for land use - SG Science Communication Fund project using case-studies with rural stakeholders to stimulate deliberation on adaptive responses to climate change.
  • 2007 - SAF-JAC: Scottish Government research study to assess to what extent data from the Single application Form could be used to meet the statistical requirements of the June Agricultural Census: creation of spatiotemporal land use maps at field scale for Scotland.
  • 2004-2006 - Policy relevant assessments of farm-scale sustainability, principal investigator for a RELU scoping study with colleagues from CEH.
  • 1997-2006 - Development of strategic farm-scale decision support systems for multi-objective land use planning - this included both the development of computer-based simulation models and their use in deliberative inclusive processes, for example: on trade-offs in land use planning, options for Common Agricultural Policy reforms and the key research questions for stakeholders posed by climate change.
  • 2001-2005 - Development of the multi-crop simulation model CropSyst - collaboration with Washington State University, Department of Biological Systems Engineering.
  • 2003-2005 - Case study analysis of the impacts of climate change for mixed farming in Scotland and Italy with the Institute for Industrial Cropping in Bologna.
  • 1995-2005 - Decision-support systems for assessing land use options at the farm level.
  • 1995-2002 - Development of low cost remote sensing method to enhance field survey.
  • 1991-1993 - Evaluation of the regional impacts of climate change on agriculture

Bibliography 

Keith's highlighted publications

  • Matthews, K.B.; Blackstock, K.L.; Buchan, K.; Miller, D., (2011) SMILE: D28 - The role of growth in sustainability., Project Deliverable, D28, Synergies in Multi-Scale Inter-Linkages of Eco-Social Systems, EC Project FP7-SSH-2007-1.
  • Matthews, K.B.; Blackstock, K.L.; Buchan, K.; Miller, D., (2011) SMILE: D30 - Policy implications of growth, trade-offs and synergies., Project Deliverable, D30, Synergies in Multi-Scale Inter-Linkages of Eco-Social Systems, EC Project FP7-SSH-2007-1.
  • Matthews, K.B.; Blackstock, K.L.; Buchan, K.; Miller, D.; Viglia, S., (2011) SMILE: D29 - Trade-offs and synergies., Project Deliverable, D29, Synergies in Multi-Scale Inter-Linkages of Eco-Social Systems, EC Project FP7-SSH-2007-1.
  • McIntosh, B.S.; Alexandrov, G.; Matthews, K.B.; Mysiak, J.; van Ittersum, M., (2010) Editorial - Preface to the Thematic Issue: On the assessment and evaluation of environmental models and software., Environmental Modelling and Software, 26, 245-246.
  • Blackstock, K.L.; Dunglinson, J.; Matthews, K.B.; Dilley, R.; Futter, M., (2009) Climate proofing Scottish River Basin Planning: A future challenge., Environmental Policy and Governance, 19, 374-387.

Keith's most recent publications

  • Bellocchi, G.; Rivington, M.; Donatelli, M.; Matthews, K.B., (In press) Validation of biophysical models: issues and methodologies: a review., In: Sustainable Farming Systems, Springer Science.
  • Belocchi, G.; Rivington, M.; Donatelli, M.; Matthews, K.B., (2010) Validation of biophysical models: issues and methodologies. A review., Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 30, 109-130.
  • Buchan, K.; Matthews, K.B.; Miller, D.G., (2010) Modelling scenarios for CAP Pillar 1 Area Payments using Macaulay Land Capability for Agriculture (& Less Favoured Area Designations) - report on the calculation of stocking rates., Submitted to Scottish Government, 9 April 2010.
  • Buchan, K.; Matthews, K.B.; Miller, D.G., (2010) Modelling scenarios for CAP Pillar 1 Area Payments using Macaulay Land Capability for Agriculture (& Less Favoured Area Designations) - report on the use of seasonal 'land let out to others' data., Submitted to Scottish Government, 7 April 2010.
  • Buchan, K.; Matthews, K.B.; Miller, D.G.; Towers, W., (2010) Modelling scenarios for CAP Pillar 1 Area Payments using Macaulay Land Capability for Agriculture (& Less Favoured Area Designations) - final report., Submitted to Scottish Government 27 August 2010 and published online 3 November 2010.
  • Buchan, K.; Miller, D.G.; Matthews, K.B., (2010) Modelling scenarios for CAP Pillar 1 Area Payments using Macaulay Land Capability for Agriculture (& Less Favoured Area Designations) - dataset and report on LCA breakdown of land use in Scotland., Submitted to Scottish Government, 30 March 2010.
  • Buchan, K.; Miller, D.G.; Matthews, K.B., (2010) Modelling scenarios for CAP Pillar 1 Area Payments using Macaulay Land Capability for Agriculture (& Less Favoured Area Designations) - provisional results of scenario analysis., Submitted to Scottish Government, 10 May 2010.
  • Buchan, K.; Miller, D.G.; Matthews, K.B., (2010) Modelling scenarios for CAP Pillar 1 Area Payments using Macaulay Land Capability for Agriculture (& Less Favoured Area Designations) - report on LCA breakdown of land use in Scotland., Submitted to Pack Inquiry Working Group, 7 April 2010.
  • Buchan, K.; Rivington, M.; Miller, D.G.; Matthews, K.B., (2010) Agro-meteorologocal indicators of climate change - Tarland case study - Technical Report., Aquarius Workshop: Farmer and Factor, Commercial Hotel, Tarland, Aberdeenshire, 11 March 2010.
  • Matthews, K.B.; Blackstock, K.L.; Buchan, K.; Miller, D.; Rivington, M.; Gilbert, A.; Ibiyemi, A., (2010) D16: Scottish case study report., Report for FP7, SSH, Collaborative Project SMILE, 62pp.
  • Matthews, K.B.; Blackstock, K.L.; Buchan, K.; Miller, D.G.; Rivington, M., (2010) D23: Utility of Tools to Stakeholders., Report for FP7 SSH, Collaborative Project SMILE, 83pp.
  • Matthews, K.B.; Blackstock, K.L.; Buchan, K.; Miller, D.G.; Rivington, M., (2010) Workshop to discuss SMILE analysis of CNP., FP7 SSH, Collaborative Project SMILE, Workshop with CNPA, Grantown-on-Spey, 6th December 2010.
  • Matthews, K.B.; Buchan, K.; Miller, D.G., (2010) Modelling scenarios for CAP Pillar 1 Area Payments using Macaulay Land Capability for Agriculture (& Less Favoured Area Designations) - report on the generation of payments per LCA class baseline., Submitted to Scottish Government, 2 June 2010.
  • Matthews, K.B.; Rivington, M.; Blackstock, K.L.; McCrum, G.; Buchan, K.; Miller, D.G., (2010) Raising the bar? The challenge of evaluating the outcomes of environmental modelling and software., Environmental Modelling and Software, 26, 247-257.
  • Miller, D.G.; Matthews, K.B.; Buchan, K., (2010) Modelling scenarios for CAP Pillar 1 Area Payments using Macaulay Land Capability for Agriculture (& Less Favoured Area Designations) - report on the generation of payments per business baseline and the implications for mapping., Submitted to Scottish Government, 10 June 2010.
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