Michael Clark
Researcher
Mike's research interests include the environmental, economic, and health impacts of food systems. He uses models to provide quantitative estimates on the current and projected impacts of the food system, as well as the potential benefits of changing the food system (e.g. by changing diets, or the rate at which yields increases).
Mike joined the Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention in August 2018, and is working on expanding the Centre's food system model to incorporate biodiversity and economic outcomes in collaboration with the Wellcome funded projected "Livestock, Environment and People", as well as with researchers from other departments across Oxford and international collaborators.
Mike holds a PhD in Natural Resources Science and Management from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, and studied biology and ecology at undergraduate level.
Recent publications
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Proactive Conservation to Prevent Habitat Losses to Agricultural Expansion
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CLARK M. et al, (2020), Nature Sustainability
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Global food system emissions could preclude achieving the 1.5° and 2°C climate change targets
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CLARK M. et al, (2020), Science
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Multiple health and environmental impacts of foods.
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Clark MA. et al, (2019), Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 116, 23357 - 23362
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Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems.
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Willett W. et al, (2019), Lancet, 393, 447 - 492
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Climate change has likely already affected global food production.
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Ray DK. et al, (2019), PloS one, 14