MSc theses 2021

Below, an overview is provided of the MSc thesis reports produced by students who did an MSc thesis at the Environmental Systems Analysis Group in 2020.

  • Dylan Koster: Improving climate change- and biodiversity-related ecosystem services on temperate highway verges
  • Lei Li: Modelling the impacts of fertilizer management strategies on long-term phosphorus behaviour in different agroecosystems
  • Popi Michelogiannaki: Food waste reduction in a selection of supermarkets in the Netherlands, through the app "Too Good To Go”
  • Ricarda Wenisch: Extent and risk perception of salinisation problems for agriculture in the German North Sea area
  • Tabea Müller: The potential of tiny forests' regulating ecosystem services for urban cllimate challenges: quantifying the effects in the Netherlands
  • Merijn Bouman: What spatial impact had tourism on land-usage and the water system in Benidorm?
  • Hanzhi Wu: Spatio-temporal analysis on the effects of sponge city programme on the supply of urban flood regulation ecosystem services: a case study in Gongshu district of Hangzhou city, China
  • Federico Cornacchia: The economic value of urban biodiversity: an attempt to integrate hedonic pricing and citizen science data. Case study: New York city
  • Janneke den Dekker-Arlain: Opportunities and challenges of urban ecosystem services incorporation into Dutch urban management and planning
  • Astrid Berndsen: Impacts of fertilizer and manure management on nitrogen use efficiency as function of site properties for maize crops
  • Marc Schopman: The local context of urban nature-based solutions projects
  • Yulun Wu: Climate-change Impacts on European Terrestrial Biodiversity: Exploring Consistency Between Bioclimatic Projection and Local Time-series Data
  • Mahranny Diwid Prasetyawati: The building of ecosystem accounts on coastal area
  • Michelle van Hilten: Quantifying the effects of conservation practices on ecosystem service supply on agricultural land in Oregon, USA
  • Seth Ansah: Exploring ecosystem services of green-blue infrastructure and nature-based solutions in Koforidua, Ghana
  • Nina Galle: This or that? Defining environmental objectives in the design of a results-based agri-environmental contract: The case of grasslands in Voeren, Belgium
  • Sanne Floor Apperloo: A way to recover mangroves in the Thai Trat province
  • Eva Varkevisser: North Sea of opportunities: exploration of low-trophic aquaculture's potential contribution to nature-development and restoration in offshore windfarms
  • Victoria Miles Hidalgo: A systematic review on climate smart agriculture in the central and tropical Andes
  • Simone Tanis: Modelling climate change adaptation effects on sustainability of agricultural systems under various irrigation regimes: a case study for Twente
  • Jesús Bacete Sanz: Building an evidence base of nature-based solutions' transversality
  • Jauke van Nijen: Implementing an extended producer responsibility scheme to attain a sustainable fishing gear system
  • Robert Mussgnug: Temperature-induced shifts in the sex ratios of two North Sea flatfish species (Pleuronectes Platessa and Limanda Limanda) over space and time
  • Anandi Sarita Namasivayam: Impacts of forest-cover change on the dynamics of ecosystem services in the Indian Nilgiri Biosphere
  • Ralitsa Shentova: Nature in times of Corona: associations of nearby greenery with mental wellbeing during COVID-19
  • Gerdine Frens: Evaluation of eco-labels from an ecosystem-services supply perspective
  • Alejandro Basa Benavides: An initial ABM description of Benidorm's water system
  • Diede Tessemaker: The role of human diets, trade, circularity and efficiency in reducing nitrogen, phosphorus and greenhouse gas emissions from Dutch agriculture
  • Rik van Steekelenburg: Assessing the greenhouse gas emission reduction potential of companies with net-zero emission commitments
  • Nasim Pourahad Anzabi: Vertical greenery systems in Dutch urban areas: ecosystem services, key actors, drivers and barriers
  • Yue Song: Enhancing benefits of green infrastructure in business parks by focusing on the synergy park Innofase, Duiven
  • Yuning Zhang: The feasibility of green roofs from three different perspectives in Beijing
  • Charlotte van Haren: Will all trees go up in flames? Assessing forest-fire risks in Vietnam with the ICLUE model
  • Bas de Jongh: Applicability of the Dutch Natural Capital Accounts in municipal policy making
  • Anastasiia Bushovska: Socio-cultural assessment of peatland ecosystem services in Ukrainian Volyn Oblast for more sustainable regional peatland management
  • Johanna Schijvenaars: Factors influencing adoption of best management practices by coffee smallholders on Mt. Elgon, Eastern Uganda
  • Julia Graefen: Climate change effects on the Wadi Mujib Catchment in Jordan and adaptation of the water supply sector of Amman
  • Ilse Postma: Where to go tiny? Comparing locations for tiny houses in The Netherlands
  • Anqi Yuan: The effects of dam removal programs on ecosystem service supply by watershed – case study of Sélune river in France
  • Nafil Rabbani Attamimi: The effectiveness of tropical peatland management strategies to mitigate greenhouse-gases emissions
  • Daixuan Yuan: meta-analysis on the value of coastal protective services: the relevance of economic valuation methods and economic prosperity
  • Yue Huang: Integrated Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Nature Restoration Plan for Farm La Junquera in Southern Spain
  • Orpah Magaya: Comparative analysis of agri-environmental schemes in Swiss grassland farming: conditions of implementation and potential effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services
  • Lei Bao: The Environmental Profit & Loss (EP&L) Account for a Specific Chemical Factory in Shanghai, and EP&L's Contribution to Chinese Corporation's Environmental Management and Scientific Rigour
  • Sezim Yertayeva: Assessing ecosystem services and their provision under different management scenarios in Ile-Alatau National Park
  • Antonia Elvers: Evaluating indicators for Result-based Agri-Environment-Climate measures: breeding farm-birds in Münsterland, Germany
  • Claudia Espejo Valle – Inclán: Water and energy saving measures in the Benidorm's hotel sector
  • Andrea Rosso: Women-friendly bike infrastructures in Turin: assessing requirements and strategies for a gender-inclusive bike system and its potential impact on the air quality
  • Josephine Kooij: Modelling the long-term immobilization and release of zinc in agricultural soils
  • George Chanarin: Quantifying the effect diversification of farming systems has upon economic viability