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M.Sc
Room 8A-07, NU-building
Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), De Boelelaan 1111
1081 HV Amsterdam
Niels Debonne is an assistant professor in the Environmental Geography department at the Institute for Environmental Studies. His current research is focused on pathways of sustainable intensification of European agriculture. In the coming decades, Europe will be transformed by demographic, technological, climatic and societal megatrends. Niels aims to map and project these trends, and gauge how they enable or disable specific pathways of sustainable intensification. This research is part of the SIPATH project.
Niels has obtained his PhD degree from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, in which he took stock of new actors and new scales in agriculture. He used a range of methodologies, including land system modeling, empirical field work, and meta-analysis. 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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Environmental Geography, PhD, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
15 Jan 2016 → 5 Feb 2021
Award Date: 5 Feb 2021
Geography, Master, KU Leuven
1 Sep 2013 → 15 Sep 2015
Award Date: 15 Sep 2015
Geography, Bachelor, KU Leuven
1 Sep 2010 → 4 Jul 2013
Award Date: 4 Jul 2013
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: PhD Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research VU Amsterdam, graduation VU Amsterdam
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review
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
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