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Dr Koen Overmars |
Tel: +31 317 485611
Fax: +31 317 482419
Email: koen.overmars@wur.nl
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Koen Overmars did his PhD research on land use change science. In this study, pattern-oriented, geographical approaches and process-based, sociological approaches are compared in studying land use change for a case in the Philippines. The relation between observed land use and factors that explain land use are described inductively with statistical methods as well as with an actor-decision framework in a deductive manner. The approaches are integrated in a spatially explicit land use model (CLUE-s: Conversion of Land Use and its Effects at Small regional extent) to project future patterns of land use for different scenarios. The study was performed within a larger program and had a highly interdisciplinary character. Koen Overmars has experience in analysis and modelling of the dynamics of land use systems, the spatial analysis of land use processes at multiple scales and levels and in statistical methods for spatial and multilevel analyses. Furthermore, he has wide experience in interdisciplinary environmental research in general. Koen (co-) authored 13 peer-reviewed scientific papers of which 6 as first author. Since May 2005 Koen works as Post-doc on several projects regarding land use change in Europe. |
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Dr Peter Verburg |
Tel: +31 3174 85208
Fax: +31 317 482419
Email: Peter.Verburg@wur.nl |
Dr. Peter Verburg
Peter Verburg has extensive experience with the spatial analysis and modelling of agro-ecosystems, land use, urban systems and landscape pattern. Peter Verburg has participated in a number of (IGBP/IHDP) LUCC related research projects in different parts of the world, including China, the Philippines and the north-western European delta. He is project co-ordinator of the CLUE model (http://www.cluemodel.nl), a well-established, spatially explicit methodology for simulating land use change with many national (RIVM/RPB) and international counterparts and applications. Within the framework of the IGBP/IHDP LUCC project Peter Verburg is a member of the scientific staff of the LUCC focus 3 office on Regional and Global Models of Land Use and Land Cover Change. He has also participated in several Climate Change related projects (NOP II programme) on the topic of upscaling greenhouse gas emissions from plot to regional level. He has (co-) authored over 25 peer-reviewed scientific papers and has been guest editor of 3 special issues on land use change modelling
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