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Side Event: GEOSS Services
ID-04 Meeting (27 Aug. 2012)
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MDGs
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Future Earth - research for global sustainability
GEO Work Plan, Strategic Targets
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The Merton Initiative: Towards a Global Observing System for the Human Environment
Costopulos&Hickey: Global Oceans ...
A. Edwards: Advancing the vision of GEOSS: What next?
2nd GEOSS Science and Technology Stakeholder Workshop
GEOSS: Supporting Science for the Millennium Development Goals and Beyond
Bonn, Germany, August 28—31, 2012

Prof. Peter Verburg

Peter Verburg is professor Environmental Spatial Analysis and head of the Department Spatial Analysis and Decision Support at the Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam. Peter Verburg has established a leading position in the field of land use analysis and modelling. He has developed and applied a wide range of methods to analyze spatial patterns of land use at scales from local to global. Methods used in his research originate from different disciplines, including social sciences (interviews, participatory workshops, multi-level statistics, foresight and scenario studies), econometrics (efficiency analysis, spatial econometrics), geography (accessibility analysis, spatial modelling, remote sensing) and earth sciences (biogeochemical modelling). Having worked with collaborators from this wide variety of fields Peter has established insight in the different disciplinary traditions and vocabularies which facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration. His work on regional and global scale land use modeling has resulted in one of the most frequently used land use models worldwide (see CLUE-s). Peter is chairing the Global Land Project of IHDP and IGBP and is actively involved in several EU-level research projects in the field of land use, sustainable city planning, climate change adaptation, rural development and ecosystem services. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and several book chapters. He has organized workshops and post-graduate courses on the topic of land use modelling and ecosystem services.

Expertise
Land change analysis, spatial analysis and modeling, landscape ecology, ecosystem services, interdisciplinary analysis of human-environment interactions, decision support systems, scenarios, multi-functional land sue.

Academic training
2000   PhD. Land Use Modelling, Wageningen University
1996   MSc. Physical Geography, Wageningen University

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