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Niels Debonne is a PhD researcher in the Environmental Geography Group. His research aims at developing methods to model land use changes that emerge from telecoupled systems, and specifically as a consequence of large-scale land acquisitions. He conceptualizes and models novel trajectories of land change at the world region and global scale. This research is embedded in the GLOLAND ERC-project (Integrating human agency in global land change models) under the supervision of Prof. Peter Verburg.
Niels completed a Master of Science in Geography – Spatial analysis and GIS program at the University of Leuven and the VU Brussels, and a Bachelor of Science in Geography at the University of Leuven. While these programmes provided Niels with a broad background in human geography and physical geography, Niels developed a specific interest in human-environment interactions and the spatial analysis of these interactions. For his master thesis, Niels travelled to a remote forested area in Southwest Ethiopia to investigate the impact of rural in-migration on the forest. He developed an operational agent-based model of the human-environment interactions he observed.
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Education/Academic qualification
Geography, Master, KU Leuven
1 Sep 2013 → 15 Sep 2015
Geography, Bachelor, KU Leuven
1 Sep 2010 → 4 Jul 2013
Keywords
- G Geography (General)
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Cambodia
Social Sciences
land degradation
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Earth & Environmental Sciences
land use change
Earth & Environmental Sciences
governance
Social Sciences
acquisition
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Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Research Output 2016 2019
Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems: Chapter 1: Framing and Context
Debonne, N., 8 Aug 2019, 98 p.Research output: Book / Report › Report › Academic
Creating an Enabling Environment for Land Degradation Neutrality: and its potential contribution to enhancing well-being, livelihoods and the environment
Verburg, P. H., Metternicht, G., Allen, C., Debonne, N., Akhtar-Schuster, M., Inácio da Cunha, M., Karim, Z., Pilon, A., Raja, O., Sánchez Santivañez, M. & Şenyaz, A., 23 Aug 2019, Bonn (Germany): United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). 77 p. (UNCCD Science Policy Interface)Research output: Book / Report › Report › Academic
Open Access
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land degradation
livelihood
land management
sustainable development
land market
Future governance options for large-scale land acquisition in Cambodia: Impacts on tree cover and tiger landscapes
Debonne, N., van Vliet, J. & Verburg, P. H., 1 Apr 2019, In : Environmental Science & Policy. 94, p. 9 - 19 10 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
File
Cambodia
governance
acquisition
reintroduction
land
Representing large-scale land acquisitions in land use change scenarios for the Lao PDR
Debonne, N., van Vliet, J., Verburg, P. H. & Heinimann, A., Aug 2018, In : Regional Environmental Change. 18, 6, p. 1857–1869 13 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
File
land use change
land
smallholder
rubber
commodity
Modelling the impact of rural migration on tropical deforestation in South-West Ethiopia
Van Rompaey, A., Debonne, N. & Vanmaercke, M., 24 Oct 2016.Research output: Contribution to Conference › Poster › Other research output
deforestation
modeling
immigrant population
forest resource
field survey