Marie Castellazzi
With a background in environmental sciences and geographical information management, and previous work on spatio-temporal modelling in agricultural landscape (LandSFACTS modelling software), Marie is now involved in modelling land-use scenarios and assessing the multi-functionality of landscapes in rural Scotland.
Current research interests
My work focuses on:
- characterising current Scottish land uses and agro-ecosystems;
- developing a generic multi-functional landscape modelling tool built on both LandSFACTS and previous work at the Macaulay Institute (e.g. hot-spot modelling, land capability, Scottish land uses);
- using the tool on current Scottish landscapes to investigate potential policy or climate change outcomes on ecosystem services, through land use change scenario assessments.
Bibliography
Marie's highlighted publications
- Brown, I.; Poggio, L.; Gimona, A.; Castellazzi, M.S., (2011) Climate change, drought risk and land capability for agriculture: implications for land-use in Scotland., Regional Environmental Change, 11, 503-518.
- Castellazzi, M.S.; Brown, I.; Poggio, L.; Gimona, A., (2010) Multi-scale modelling of ecosystem services - an iterative approach., International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs2010), Ottawa, Canada, 5-8 July 2010.
- Castellazzi, M.S.; Matthews, J.; Angevin, F.; Wood, G.A.; Burgess, P.J.; Brown, I.; Conrad, K.F.; Perry, P.N., (2010) Simulation scenarios of spatio-temporal arrangement of crops at the landscape scale., Environmental Modelling and Software, 25, 1881-1889.
- Dunn, S.M.; Birkel, C.; Castellazzi, M.S., (2010) Catchment scale recovery from diffuse pollution: some initial scenario exploration., Proceedings of the 14th International Conference, IWA Diffuse Pollution Specialist Group: Diffuse Pollution and Eutrophication, Quebec, Canada, 12-17 September 2010.
Marie's most recent publications
- Balana, B.B.; Lago, M.; Baggaley, N.; Castellazzi, M.; Stutter, M.; Slee, B.; Vinten, A.J.A., (2011) Integrating economic and biophysical data in assessing cost effectiveness of buffer strip placement., Journal of Environmental Quality. Published online.
- Brown, I.; Gimona, A.; Poggio, L.; Castellazzi, M.; Aitkenhead, M.; Brooker, R., (2011) Developing upland habitat inventories for Annex 1 and priority BAP habitats., Report to Scottish Natural Heritage.
- Brown, I.; Poggio, L.; Gimona, A.; Castellazzi, M.S., (2011) Land capability classification to plan for a changing climate., In: Land Quality and Land Use Information - in the European Union (eds. G. Toth and T. Nemeth). EUR - Scientific and Technical Research Series., Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg. ISBN 978-92-79-17601-2
- Castellazzi, M.S.; Brown, I., (2011) Deliverable 1.8: Land use scenarios for one demonstration catchment together with a model land-use system and software interface for the other catchments.,
- Castellazzi, M.S.; Brown, I., (2011) Deliverable 1.9: Generic toolkit applicable in any catchment to link land-use to climate change scenarios through changing land capability and incorporate adaptation options., FP7 REFRESH (Adaptive Strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of Climate Change on European Freshwater Ecosystems), Project No. 244121.
- Ronfort, C.; Souchere, V.; Martin, P.; Sebillotte, C.; Castellazzi, M.S.; Barbottin, A.; Meynard, J.M.; L:aignel, B., (2011) Methodology for land use change scenario assessment for runoff impacts: A case study in a north-western European Loess belt region (Pays de Caux, France)., Catena, 86, 36-48.
- Poggio, L.; Gimona, A.; Brown, I.; Castellazzi, M.S., (2010) Soil available water capacity interpolation and spatial uncertainty modelling at multiple geographical extents., Geoderma, 160, 175-188.
- Castellazzi, M.S., (2009) Spatio-temporal modelling of crop co-existence in European agricultural landscapes., PhD. Thesis, Cranfield University.
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