Ms. L.L.J.M. (Wieteke) Willemen: Mapping and Modelling Multifunctional Landscapes

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12 May 2010 16:00
Unit: Wageningen University
Location: Aula, building 362, Gen. Foulkesweg 1, Wageningen
Organisation: Wageningen University
Promotor: prof.dr.ir. A. Veldkamp (Soil Inventarisation and Land Evaluation)
Promotor: Prof.dr. R. Leemans
Co Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. P.H. Verburg (WU/VU A’dam); Dr. L. Hein

 Society benefits from a wide range of services provided by the landscape. These so-called ‘landscape services’ include, for example, food, timber and fresh water supply, climate regulation, landscape aesthetics and recreational opportunities. Landscape services are not equally spread over the landscape. Some places deliver more and different services than other places. In order to make best use of all landscape services, policy makers want to know where and how much landscape services are being provided. The problem is that currently no maps are available that contain this information for complete regions. Additionally, there is limited knowledge on where and how much service supply changes when a landscape is changed. Especially when people modify landscapes to improve the supply of one specific service at a multifunctional location, the choice of land management is important, since changes in the landscape will influence the supply of each landscape service differently. To tackle these two problems this thesis aims at the developing of methodologies to quantify and map the current state and to model future changes of a range of landscape services in the Netherlands. In the thesis we focused on methods that describe spatial patters and processes that could explain these spatial and temporal changes. The resulting maps and gained understanding of landscape dynamics could help policymakers to design and evaluate spatial policies for multifunctional landscapes.
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