Dendoncker CV
3rd ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 2 - 14 September 2008: Tutor
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Tutor: Nicolas Dendoncker n.dendoncker -at- ed.ac.uk Centre for the study of Environmental Change and Sustainability (CECS), School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JN, UK |
Biosketch
Nicolas Dendoncker is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (Centre for the Study of Environmental Change and Sustainability) since April 2007. He participated in a range of EC-funded project (FRAGILE, ALARM, ECOCHANGE) and a couple of national projects (SWECIA - Sweden, MULTIMODE - Belgium). His research focuses on modelling land use change and its impacts on the environment (e.g. on soil organic carbon sequestration, biodiversity and other ecosystem services). He has used a variety of spatial-statistical techniques as well as rule-based environmental models. He has also developed, in collaboration with other researchers, a model to downscale land use data and scenarios. In general, he has been interested in uncertainty and scale issues, for example, uncertainties in model outputs that arise from scaling or using poor quality datasets.
Another focus of his present research is on developing agent based models (ABM) of land use and environmental changes. These models are combined with the development of scenarios to explore the response of individuals and society to different drivers of future environmental change. The impacts of these landscape changes on ecosystem services are assessed.
He participated to the AVEC summer school in 2004 and was a tutor at the 3rd ALTERNET summer school (2008).
