Key publications Environmental Geography

2022

• Appelt, J.L., Garcia Rojas, D.C., Verburg, P.H. et al. (2022). Socioeconomic outcomes of agricultural land use change in Southeast Asia. Ambio 51, 1094–1109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-022-01712-4
• Davis, J., Magadzire, N., Hemerijckx, L.M., Maes, T., Durno, D., Kenyana, N., Lwasa, S., Van Rompaey, A., Verburg, P.H. & May, J. (2022). Precision approaches to food insecurity: A spatial analysis of urban hunger and its contextual correlates in an African city. World Development, 149, 105694. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105694
• Debonne, N., Bürgi, M., Diogo, V., Helfenstein, J., Herzog, F., Levers, C., Mohr, F., Swart, R. & Verburg, P. (2022). The geography of megatrends affecting European agriculture. Global Environmental Change, 75, 102551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102551
• Malek, Ž., Loeffen, M., Feurer, M. & Verburg, P.H. (2022). Regional disparities in impacts of climate extremes require targeted adaptation of Fairtrade supply chains. One Earth, 5(8), 917–931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.07.008

2021

• Debonne, N., van Vliet, J., Metternicht, G., & Verburg, P.H. (2021). Agency shifts in agricultural land governance and their implications for land degradation neutrality. Global Environmental Change, 66, 102221.
• Dou, Y., Cosentino, F., Malek, Z., Maiorano. L., Thuiller, W. & Verburg, P.H. (2021). A new European land systems representation accounting for landscape characteristics. Landscape Ecology, 36(8), 2215–2234.
•  Leijten, F., Sim. S., King., H & Verburg, P.H. (2021) Local deforestation spillovers induced by forest moratoria: Evidence from Indonesia. Land Use Policy, 19, 105690.
• Zagaria, C., Schulp, C.J.E., Zavalloni, M., Viaggi, D. & Verburg, P.H. (2021). Modelling transformational adaptation to climate change among crop farming systems in Romagna, Italy. Agricultural Systems, 188, 103024.
• Wang, Y., van Vliet, J., Debonne, N., Pu, L. & Verburg, P.H. (2021) Settlement changes after peak population: Land system projections for China until 2050. Landscpae and Urban Planning, 209, 104045.
• Schrammeijer, E.A., van Zanten, B.T. & Verburg, P.H. (2021) Whose park? Crowdsourcing citizen's urban green space preferences to inform needs-based management decisions. Sustainable Cities and Society, 74, 103249.
• Levers, C., Romero-Muñoz, A., Baumann, M., De Marzo, T., Fernández, P.D., Gasparri, N.I., Gavier-Pizarro, G.I., Le Polain de Waroux, Y., Piquer-Rodríguez, M., Semper-Pascual, A. & Kuemmerle, T. (2021) Agricultural expansion and the ecological marginalization of forest-dependent people. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, 118(44), 1–9.

2020

• Komossa, F., Wartmann, F.M., Kienast, F. & Verburg, P.H. (2020). Comparing outdoor recreation preferences in peri-urban landscapes using different data gathering methods. Landscape and Urban Planning 199, 103796.
• Laroche, P.C.S.J., Schulp, C.J.E., Kastner, T. & Verburg, P.H. (2020). Telecoupled environmental impacts of current and alternative Western diets. Global Environmental Change, 62, 102066.
• Leijten, F.C, Sim, S., King, H. & Verburg, P.H. (2020). Which forests could be protected by corporate zero deforestation commitments? A spatial assessment. Environmental Research Letters.
• Li, M., Koks, E.E., Taubenböck, H. & van Vliet, J. (2020). Continental-scale mapping and analysis of 3D buiding structure. Remote Sensing of Environment, 245, 114859.
• Prestele, R., and Verburg, P.H. (2020). The overlooked spatial dimension of climate smart agriculture. Global Change Biology, 23(3), 1045–1054.
• Shaw, B.J., van Vliet, J. & Verburg., P.H. (2020). The peri-urbanization of Europe: A systematic review of a multifaceted process. Landscape and Urban Planning, 196, 103733.
  

2019

• Bais-Moleman, A-L., Schulp, C.J.E. & Verburg, P.H. (2019). Assessing the environmental impacts of production- and consumption-side measures in sustainable agriculture intensification in the European Union. Geoderma 338, 555–567.
• Bubalo, M., van Zanten, B.T. & Verburg, P.H. (2019). Crowdsourcing geo-information on landscape perceptions and preferences: a review. Landscape and Urban Planning 184, 101–111.
• Debonne, N., van Vliet, J. & Verburg, P.H., (2019). Future governance options for large-scale land acquisition in Cambodia: impacts on tree cover and tiger landscapes. Environmental Science & Policy, 94, 9–19.
• Kiruki, H., van der Zanden, E.H., Zagaria, C. & Verburg, P.H. (2019). Sustainable woodland management and livelihood options in a charcoal producing region: An agent-based modelling approach. Journal of Environmental Management, 248, 109245.
• Malek, Z., Douw, B., van Vliet, J., van der Zanden, E. & Verburg, P.H. (2019). Local land-use decision-making in a global context. Environmental Research Letters, 14(8).
• Schulp, C.J.E., Levers, C., Kuemmerle, T., Tieskens, K.F. & Verburg, P.H. (2019). Mapping and modelling past and future land use change in Europe’s cultural landscapes. Land Use Policy 80, 332–344.
• Schulze, K., Malek, Z. & Verburg, P.H. (2018). Towards better mapping of forest management patterns: A global allocation approach. Forest Ecology and Management, 432, 776–785.
• van Vliet, J (2019). Direct and indirect loss of natural area from urban expansion. Nature Sustainability 2(8), 755–763.
• Verburg, P.H., Alexander, P., Evans, T., Magliocca, N.R., Malek, Z., Rounsevell, M.D.A. & van Vliet, J. (2019). Beyond land cover change: towards a new generation of land use models. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 38, 77–85.
• Wang, Y., van Vliet, J., Pu, L. & Verburg, P.H. (2019). Modeling different urban change trajectories and their trade-offs with food production in Jiangsu Province, China. Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, 77, 101355.

2018

• Ariti, A.T., van Vliet, J. & Verburg, P.H. (2018). Farmers participation in the development of land use policies for the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia. Land Use Policy, 71, 129–137.
• Debonne, N., van Vliet, J., Heinimann, A. & Verburg, P.H. (2018). Representing large-scale land acquisitions in land use change scenarios for the Lao PDR. Regional Environmental Change, 18, 1857–1869.
• Komossa, F., van der Zanden, E.H., Schulp, C.J.E. & Verburg, P.H. (2018). Mapping landscape potential for outdoor recreation using different archetypical recreation user groups in the European Union. Ecological Indicators, 85, 105–116.
• Malek, Z. & Verburg, P.H. (2018). Adaptation of land management in the Mediterranean under scenarios of irrigation water use and availability. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 23, 821–837.
• Prestele, R., Hirsch, A.L., Davin, E.L., Senevirate, S.I. & Verburg, P.H. (2018). A spatially explicit representation of conservation agriculture for application in global change studies. Global Change Biology, 24, 4038–4053
• Schulp, C.J.E., Levers, C., Kuemmerle, T., Tieskens, K.F. & Verburg, P.H. (2018). Mapping and modelling past and future land use change in Europe’s cultural landscapes. Land Use Policy.
• Stürck, J., Levers, C., van der Zanden, E.H., Schulp, C.J.E., ….., Verburg, P.H. (2018). Simulating and delineating future land change trajectories across Europe. Regional Environmental Change, 18, 733–749.
• Tieskens, K.F., van Zanten, B.T., Schulp, C.J.E. & Verburg, P.H. (2018). Aesthetic appreciation of the cultural landscape through social media: An analysis of revealed preference in the Dutch river landscape. Landscape and Urban Planning, 177, 128–137.
• Verhagen, W., van Teeffelen, A.J.A. & Verburg, P.H. (2018). Shifting spatial priorities for ecosystem services in Europe following land use change. Ecological Indicators, 89, 397–410.
• Wolff, S., Schrammeijer, E.A., Schulp, C.J.E. & Verburg, P.H. (2018). Meeting global land restoration and protection targets: what would the world look like in 2050? Global Environmental Change, 52, 259–272.

2017

• Tieskens, K.F., Shaw, B.J., Haer, T., Schulp, C.J.E. & Verburg, P.H. (2017). Cultural landscapes of the future: using agent-based modeling to discuss and develop the use and management of the cultural landscape of South West Devon. Landscape Ecology, 32, 2113–2132. 
• Bürgi, M., Verburg, P.H., Kuemmerle, T. & Plieninger, T. (2017). Analyzing dynamics and values of cultural landscapes. Landscape Ecology,  32, 2077–2081. 
• Malek, Ž. & Verburg, P.H. (2017). Adaptation of land management in the Mediterranean under scenarios of irrigation water use and availability. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 23(6), 821–837. 
• Prestele, R., Arneth, A., Bondeau, A., de Noblet-Ducoudré, N., Pugh, T.A.M., Sitch, S., Stehfest, E. & Verburg, P.H. (2017). Current challenges of implementing anthropogenic land-use and land-cover change in models contributing to climate change assessments. Earth System Dynamics, 8, 369–386. 
• Derkzen, M.L., Nagendra, H., van Teeffelen, A.J.A., Purushotham, A. & Verburg, P.H. (2017). Shifts in ecosystem services in deprived urban areas: understanding people’s responses and consequences for well-being. Ecology and Society, 22(1), 52. 
• Derkzen, M.L., van Teeffelen, A.J.A. & Verburg, P.H. (2017). Green infrastructure for urban climate adaptation: How do residents’ views on climate impacts and green infrastructure shape adaptation preferences?Landscape and Urban Planning, 157, 106–130. 
• Tieskens, K.F., Schulp, C.J.E., Levers, C., Lieskovský, J., Kuemmerle, T., Plieninger, T. & Verburg, P.H. (2017). Characterizing European cultural landscapes: Accounting for structure, management intensity and value of agricultural and forest landscapes. Land Use Policy, 62, 29–39. 
• van der Zanden, E.H., Verburg, P.H., Schulp, C.J.E. & Verkerk, P.J. (2017). Trade-offs of European agricultural abandonment. Land Use Policy, 62, 290–301. 
• van Vliet, J. , Eitelberg, D. & Verburg, P.H. (2017). A global analysis of land take in cropland areas and production displacement from urbanization. Global Environmental Change, 43, 107–115. 
• Stürck, J. & Verburg, P.H. (2017). Multifunctionality at what scale? A landscape multifunctionality assessment for the European Union under conditions of land use change. Landscape Ecology, 32, 481–500.

2016

• van Zanten, B.T., van Berkel, D.B., Meentemeyer, R.K., Smith, J.W., Tieskens, K.F. & Verburg, P.H. (2016). Continental-scale quantification of landscape values using social media data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113:12974-12979. 
• Prestele, R., Alexander, P., Rounsevell, M.D.A., Arneth, A., Calvinm K,, Doelman, J., Eitelberg, D.A., Engström, K., Fujimori, S., Hasegawa, T., Havlik, P., Humpenöder, F., Jain, A.K., Krisztin, T., Kyle, P., Meiyappan, P., Popp, A., Sands, R.D., Schaldach, R., Schüngel, J., Stehfest, E., Tabeau, A., van Meijl, H., van Vliet, J. & Verburg, P.H. (2016). Hotspots of uncertainty in land-use and land-cover change projections: a global-scale model comparison. Global Change Biology, 22, 3967–3983. 
• Scholte, S.S.K., van Zanten, B.T., Verburg, P.H. & van Teeffelen, A.J.A. (2016). Willingness to offset? Residents’ perspectives on compensating impacts from urban development through woodland restoration. Land Use Policy, 58, 403–414. 
• Ornetsmüller, C., Verburg, P.H. & Heinimann, A. (2016). Scenarios of land system change in the Lao PDR: Transitions in response to alternative demands on goods and services provided by the land. Applied Geography, 75, 1–11. 
• Fuchs, R., Schulp, C.J.E., Hengeveld, G.M., Verburg, P.H., Clevers, J.G.P.W., Schelhaas, M.-J. & Herold, M. (2016). Assessing the influence of historic net and gross land changes on the carbon fluxes of Europe. Global Change Biology, 22(7), 2526–2539. 
• Verburg, P.H., Dearing, J.A., Dyke, J.G., Leeuw, S.V.D., Seitzinger, S., Steffen, W. & Syvitski, J. (2016). Methods and approaches to modelling the Anthropocene. Global Environmental Change, 39, 328–340. 
• van Zanten, B.T., Verburg, P.H., Scholte, S.S.K., Tieskens, K.F. (2016). Using choice modeling to map aesthetic values at a landscape scale: Lessons from a Dutch case study. EcologicalEconomics, 130, 221–231. 
• Eitelberg, D.A., van Vliet, J., Doelman, J.C., Stehfest, E. & Verburg, P.H. (2016). Demand for biodiversity protection and carbon storage as drivers of global land change scenarios. Global Environmental Change, 40, 101–111. 
• Schulp, C.J.E., van Teeffelen, A.J.A., Tucker, G. & Verburg, P.H. (2016). A quantitative assessment of policy options for no net loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the European Union. Land Use Policy, 57, 151–163.

2015

• Verburg, P.H., Crossman, N., Ellis, E.C., Heinimann, A., Hostert, P., Mertz, O., Nagendra, H., Sikor, T., Erb, K.-H., Golubiewski, N., Grau, R., Grove, M., Konaté, S., Meyfroidt, P., Parker, D.C., Chowdhury, R.R., Shibata, H., Thomson, A. & Zhen, L. (2015). Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective. Anthropocene, 12, 29–41. 
• van Vliet, J., Magliocca, N., Büchner, B., Cook, E., Rey Benayas, J., Ellis, E., Heinimann, A., Keys, E., Lee, T., Liu, J., Mertz, O., Meyfroidt, P., Moritz, M., Poeplau, C., Robinson, B., Seppelt, R., Seto, K. & Verburg, P. (2015). Meta-studies in land use science: Current coverage and prospects. Ambio, 45(1), 15–28.

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