A5008011220- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Heavy metals in environment
- Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Forest Management and Policy
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Dutch Social and Cultural Studies
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
University of Antwerp
2011-2022
The challenges of achieving both food security and environmental sustainability have resulted in a confluence demands on land within the European Union (EU): we expect our to provide food, fibre fuel, purify water, sequester carbon, home biodiversity as well external nutrients form waste from humans intensive livestock enterprises. All soils can perform all these five functions, but some are better at supplying selective functions. Functional Land Management is framework for policy-making...
Agricultural ecosystems provide a range of benefits that are vital to human well-being. These dependent on several soil functions affected in different ways by legislation from the European Union, national, and regional levels. We evaluated current Union soil-related examples with regard direct indirect impacts five functions: production food, fiber, fuel; water purification regulation; carbon sequestration climate habitat for biodiversity provisioning; recycling nutrients/agro-chemicals....
Conventional farming (CONV) is the norm in European farming, causing adverse effects on some of five major soil functions, viz. primary productivity, carbon sequestration and regulation, nutrient cycling provision, water regulation purification, habitat for functional intrinsic biodiversity. Conservation agriculture (CA) an alternative to enhance functions. However, there no analysis CA benefits functions as most studies addressed individual The objective was compare CONV practices four...
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU) has been highly successful in securing supply food from Europe's agricultural land. However, new expectations have emerged society on functions that land should deliver, including regulate and purify water, sequester carbon to contribute mitigation climate change, provide a home for biodiversity allow sustainable cycling nutrients animal human waste streams. Through series reforms CAP, these expectations, or 'societal demands'...
We live in an urban century, with projections indicating that by 2050 around 2.4 billion more people worldwide will cities. Similarly, urbanization Europe is expected to increase from 72% 2015, 83.7% 2050, while built-up areas are cover than 7% of the continent's total surface. At same time, effects climate change increasingly being noticed settings. These impacts include hydro-meteorological events such as storms, floods, and landslides representing 64% damages reported natural disasters...
Soil is fundamental for the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, but our knowledge about soil organisms and habitat they provide (shortly: biodiversity) poorly developed. For instance, European Atlas Biodiversity Global contain maps with rather coarse information on biodiversity. This paper presents a methodology to map biodiversity limited data models. Two issues were addressed. First, lack consensus quantify function second, represent large areas. later issue, we applied digital mapping...
Abstract There is increasing recognition that soils fulfil many functions for society. Each soil can deliver a range of functions, but some are more effective at than others due to their intrinsic properties. In this study we mapped four different on agricultural lands across the European Union. For each function, indicators were developed evaluate performance. To calculate and assess interdependencies between data from continental long‐term simulation with DayCent model used build...
Abstract. Urbanization and especially increases in impervious areas, combination with the installation of wastewater treatment infrastructure, can impact runoff from a catchment river flows significant way. These effects were studied for Grote Nete Belgium based on empirical model-based approaches. Effective area, combined extent collection regions, was considered as an indicator urbanization pressure. It found that regions ranging outside boundaries natural caused changes upstream area...
The Berg River is one of the main rivers in Cape Region; it essential for local economy and ecology, as supplies water to agriculture industries, provides drinking greater Town region, supports rich aquatic ecosystems. impacted by both diffuse pollution from agricultural run-off point-source urban industrial wastewater. Construction a dam on headwaters 2007 has changed hydrology upper catchment. Pelagic nutrient dynamics are well documented. opposite however true riparian dynamics. We...
Since the early 2000s, there have been substantial efforts to transform concept of ecosystem services into practice. Spatial assessment tools are being developed evaluate impact spatial planning on a wide range services. However, actual implementation in decision-making remains limited. To improve implementation, that tailored local conditions can provide accurate, meaningful information. Instead generic and widely-applicable tool, we regional, spatially-explicit tool (ECOPLAN-SE) analyse...
This paper describes the methods used to produce accounts for recreational value of Natura 2000 areas in Flanders, Belgium. First, a biophysical account recreation supply and demand is compiled mapped. Demand based on data green visits per year inhabitant covers both nature-based tourism. It distinguishes local walking trips, cycling, trips with pre-transport by tourists. The number combination yearly statistics (for tourism, day trips) irregular surveys visits). modelling predicted visits....