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Niels Debonne is an assistant professor in the Environmental Geography department at the Institute for Environmental Studies. His research and teaching is concerned with the sustainability of the land system. He has done research on topics ranging from large-scale land acquisitions to European agricultural sustainability, using data-driven and model-based approaches. Along the way, Niels has developed new theoretical lenses on agency over land systems, and pioneered a new methodology to analyze drivers of systemic change.
Niels has obtained his PhD degree from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, in which he took stock of new actors and new scales in agriculture. He collaborated with the UNCCD Science-Policy Interface to include dynamics of land tenure and value chain developments in the fight against land degradation.
Originally from Belgium, Niels obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degree at the KU Leuven (Belgium). His master’s thesis took him to the Southwestern Ethiopian forest frontier, where he collected data on rural-to-rural migration, indigenous land management, and the implications for the maintenance of forest ecosystem. He developed a spatial agent-based model to with the obtained data.
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In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Environmental Geography, PhD, New Actors and Scales of Agriculture: A Land System Science Perspective, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
15 Jan 2016 → 5 Feb 2021
Award Date: 5 Feb 2021
Geography, Master, The Impact of Migration on Tropical Deforestation, KU Leuven
1 Sept 2013 → 15 Sept 2015
Award Date: 15 Sept 2015
Geography, Bachelor, The use of Google Earth in Geomorphological Research, KU Leuven
1 Sept 2010 → 4 Jul 2013
Award Date: 4 Jul 2013
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Popular
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Levers, C., Oostdijk, S., Debonne, N. & Scherpenhuijzen, N.
1/09/22 → 31/08/26
Project: Research
Petra Verdonk (Participant), Julia Schaumburg (Participant), C Kaupa (Participant), Niels Debonne (Participant), Edina Doci (Participant), Koen Lemaire (Participant), I. Maas (Participant), Marthe Wens (Participant), Hans Ossebaard (Participant), J. Leggett (Participant), Peter H. Verburg (Participant), PH Pattberg (Participant), M. Holland (Participant), D Iannuzzi (Participant), Pim Klaassen (Participant), Remco Kort (Participant) & Mathieu Blondeel (Participant)
Activity: Other
Fabian Dablander & Niels Debonne
9/10/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
27/02/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
30/10/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
13/02/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Wang, Y. (Creator), van Vliet, J. (Creator), Debonne, N. (Creator), Pu, L. (Creator) & Verburg, P. H. (Creator), DataverseNL, 2021
DOI: 10.34894/O8ZHGT, https://doi.org/10.34894/O8ZHGT
Dataset
Debonne, N. (Contributor), Van Vliet, J. (Contributor), Heinimann, A. (Contributor) & Verburg, P. (Contributor), DataverseNL, 1 Jan 2022
DOI: 10.34894/jkfjov, https://dataverse.nl/citation?persistentId=doi:10.34894/JKFJOV
Dataset
Debonne, N. (Contributor), Van Vliet, J. (Contributor) & Verburg, P. (Contributor), DataverseNL, 1 Jan 2022
DOI: 10.34894/crnbyp, https://dataverse.nl/citation?persistentId=doi:10.34894/CRNBYP
Dataset