Prof. Peter H. Verburg
Function
senior scientist
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf
Site
Birmensdorf Bi
FURTHER INFORMATION
Publications WSL
Scientific publication article peer reviewed
Li, M.; Van Vliet, J.; Ke, X.; Verburg, P.H., 2019: Mapping settlement systems in China and their change trajectories between 1990 and 2010. Habitat International, 94: 102069 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2019.102069
Wartmann, F.M.; Tieskens, K.F.; Van Zanten, B.T.; Verburg, P.H., 2019: Exploring tranquillity experienced in landscapes based on social media. Applied Geography, 113: 102112 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2019.102112
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 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2019.101355
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. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.04.030
MacFadyen, S.; Hui, C.; Verburg, P.H.; Van Teeffelen, A.J.A., 2019: Spatiotemporal distribution dynamics of elephants in response to density, rainfall, rivers and fire in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Diversity and Distributions, 25, 6: 880-894. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12907
Ornetsmüller, C.; Castella, J.; Thanichanon, P.; Lestrelin, G.; Verburg, P.H., 2019: Modelling the location and spatial pattern of a crop boom. A case study from Laos. Environmental Science and Policy, 99: 58-71. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2019.04.001
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 (13 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.07.016
Malek, Ž.; Tieskens, K.F.; Verburg, P.H., 2019: Explaining the global spatial distribution of organic crop producers. Agricultural Systems, 176: 102680 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2019.102680
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. doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2019.05.002
Malek, Ž.; Douw, B.; Van Vliet, J.; Van Der Zanden, E.H.; Verburg, P.H., 2019: Local land-use decision-making in a global context. Environmental Research Letters, 14, 8: 083006 (14 pp.). doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab309e
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. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.01.001
Parra Paitan, C.; Verburg, P.H., 2019: Methods to assess the impacts and indirect land use change caused by telecoupled agricultural supply chains: a review. Sustainability, 11, 4: 1162 (24 pp.). doi: 10.3390/su11041162
Van Vliet, J.; Verburg, P.H.; Grădinaru, S.R.; Hersperger, A.M., 2019: Beyond the urban-rural dichotomy: towards a more nuanced analysis of changes in built-up land. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 74: 41-49. doi: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2018.12.002
Debonne, N.; Van Vliet, J.; Verburg, P., 2019: Future governance options for large-scale land acquisition in Cambodia: impacts on tree cover and tiger landscapes. Environmental Science and Policy, 94: 9-19. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2018.12.031
Komossa, F.; Van der Zanden, E.H.; Verburg, P.H., 2019: Characterizing outdoor recreation user groups: a typology of peri-urban recreationists in the Kromme Rijn area, the Netherlands. Land Use Policy, 80: 246-258. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.10.017
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. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2018.11.042
Vicente, J.R.; Kueffer, C.; Richardson, D.M.; Vaz, A.S.; Cabral, J.A.; Hui, C.; Araújo, M.B.; Kühn, I.; Kull, C.A.; Verburg, P.H.; Marchante, E.; Honrado, J.P., 2019: Different environmental drivers of alien tree invasion affect different life-stages and operate at different spatial scales. Forest Ecology and Management, 433: 263-275. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2018.10.065
Schulze, K.; Malek, Ž.; Verburg, P.H., 2019: Towards better mapping of forest management patterns: a global allocation approach. Forest Ecology and Management, 432: 776-785. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2018.10.001
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. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.05.002
Meyfroidt, P.; Roy Chowdhury, R.; De Bremond, A.; Ellis, E.C.; Erb, K.-H.; Filatova, T.; Garrett, R.D.; Grove, J.M.; Heinimann, A.; Kuemmerle, T.; Kull, C.A.; Lambin, E.F.; Landon, Y.; Le Polain de Waroux, Y.; Messerli, P.; Müller, D.; Nielsen, J.Ø.; Peterson, G.D.; Rodriguez García, V.; ... Verburg, P.H., 2018: Middle-range theories of land system change. Global Environmental Change, 53: 52-67. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.08.006
Malek, Ž.; Verburg, P.H.; R Geijzendorffer, I.; Bondeau, A.; Cramer, W., 2018: Global change effects on land management in the Mediterranean region. Global Environmental Change, 50: 238-254. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.04.007
Kizos, T.; Verburg, P.H.; Bürgi, M.; Gounaridis, D.; Plieninger, T.; Bieling, C.; Balatsos, T., 2018: From concepts to practice: combining different approaches to understand drivers of landscape change. Ecology and Society, 23, 1: 25 (11 pp.). doi: 10.5751/ES-09910-230125
Estel, S.; Mader, S.; Levers, C.; Verburg, P.H.; Baumann, M.; Kuemmerle, T., 2018: Combining satellite data and agricultural statistics to map grassland management intensity in Europe. Environmental Research Letters, 13, 7: 74020 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aacc7a
Ornetsmüller, C.; Castella, J.; Verburg, P.H., 2018: A multiscale gaming approach to understand farmer's decision making in the boom of maize cultivation in Laos. Ecology and Society, 23, 2: 35 (25 pp.). doi: 10.5751/ES-10104-230235
Seppelt, R.; Verburg, P.H.; Norström, A.; Cramer, W.; Václavík, T., 2018: Focus on cross-scale feedbacks in global sustainable land management. Environmental Research Letters, 13, 9: 090402 (6 pp.). doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aadc45
Kolecka, N.; Ginzler, C.; Pazur, R.; Price, B.; Verburg, P.H., 2018: Regional scale mapping of grassland mowing frequency with Sentinel-2 time series. Remote Sensing, 10, 8: 1221 (19 pp.). doi: 10.3390/rs10081221
Yu, Q.; Hu, Q.; Van Vliet, J.; Verburg, P.H.; Wu, W., 2018: GlobeLand30 shows little cropland area loss but greater fragmentation in China. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 66: 37-45. doi: 10.1016/j.jag.2017.11.002
Schaller, L.; Targetti, S.; Villanueva, A.J.; Zasada, I.; Kantelhardt, J.; Arriaza, M.; Bal, T.; Bossi Fedrigotti, V.; Giray, F.H.; Häfner, K.; Majewski, E.; Malak-Rawlikowska, A.; Nikolov, D.; Paoli, J.; Piorr, A.; Rodríguez-Entrena, M.; Ungaro, F.; Verburg, P.H.; Van Zanten, B.; Viaggi, D., 2018: Agricultural landscapes, ecosystem services and regional competitiveness – assessing drivers and mechanisms in nine European case study areas. Land Use Policy, 76: 735-745. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.03.001
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. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.08.002
Verhagen, W.; Van der Zanden, E.H.; Strauch, M.; Van Teeffelen, A.J.A.; Verburg, P.H., 2018: Optimizing the allocation of agri-environment measures to navigate the trade-offs between ecosystem services, biodiversity and agricultural production. Environmental Science and Policy, 84: 186-196. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2018.03.013
Malek, Ž.; 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, 6: 821-837. doi: 10.1007/s11027-017-9761-0
Debonne, N.; Van Vliet, J.; Heinimann, A.; Verburg, P., 2018: Representing large-scale land acquisitions in land use change scenarios for the Lao PDR. Regional Environmental Change, 18, 6: 1857-1869. doi: 10.1007/s10113-018-1316-8
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. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.10.015
Scholte, S.S.K.; Daams, M.; Farjon, H.; Sijtsma, F.J.; Van Teeffelen, A.J.A.; Verburg, P.H., 2018: Mapping recreation as an ecosystem service: considering scale, interregional differences and the influence of physical attributes. Landscape and Urban Planning, 175: 149-160. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.03.011
Yu, Q.; Van Vliet, J.; Verburg, P.H.; You, L.; Yang, P.; Wu, W., 2018: Harvested area gaps in China between 1981 and 2010: effects of climatic and land management factors. Environmental Research Letters, 13, 4: 44006 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaafe0
García-Barón, I.; Cortés-Avizanda, A.; Verburg, P.H.; Marques, T.A.; Moreno-Opo, R.; Pereira, H.M.; Donázar, J.A., 2018: How to fit the distribution of apex scavengers into land-abandonment scenarios? The Cinereous vulture in the Mediterranean biome. Diversity and Distributions, 24, 7: 1018-1031. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12743
Yu, Q.; Verburg, P.H.; Wu, W., 2018: Environmental cognitions mediate the causal explanation of land change. Journal of Land Use Science, 13, 5: 535-548. doi: 10.1080/1747423X.2019.1567837
Zagaria, C.; Schulp, C.J.E.; Kizos, T.; Verburg, P.H., 2018: Perspectives of farmers and tourists on agricultural abandonment in east Lesvos, Greece. Regional Environmental Change, 18, 5: 1467-1479. doi: 10.1007/s10113-017-1276-4
Hirsch, A.L.; Prestele, R.; Davin, E.L.; Seneviratne, S.I.; Thiery, W.; Verburg, P.H., 2018: Modelled biophysical impacts of conservation agriculture on local climates. Global Change Biology, 24, 10: 4758-4774. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14362
Prestele, R.; Hirsch, A.L.; Davin, E.L.; Seneviratne, S.I.; Verburg, P.H., 2018: A spatially explicit representation of conservation agriculture for application in global change studies. Global Change Biology, 24, 9: 4038-4053. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14307
Fuchs, R.; Prestele, R.; Verburg, P.H., 2018: A global assessment of gross and net land change dynamics for current conditions and future scenarios. Earth System Dynamics, 9, 2: 441-458. doi: 10.5194/esd-9-441-2018
Ornetsmüller, C.; Heinimann, A.; Verburg, P.H., 2018: Operationalizing a land systems classification for Laos. Landscape and Urban Planning, 169: 229-240. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.09.018
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, 2: 369-386. doi: 10.5194/esd-8-369-2017
Derkzen, M.L.; Van Teeffelen, A.J.A.; Nagendra, H.; Verburg, P.H., 2017: Shifting roles of urban green space in the context of urban development and global change. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 29: 32-39. doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2017.10.001
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, 11: 2113-2132. doi: 10.1007/s10980-017-0502-2
Spake, R.; Lasseur, R.; Crouzat, E.; Bullock, J.M.; Lavorel, S.; Parks, K.E.; Schaafsma, M.; Bennett, E.M.; Maes, J.; Mulligan, M.; Mouchet, M.; Peterson, G.D.; Schulp, C.J.E.; Thuiller, W.; Turner, M.G.; Verburg, P.H.; Eigenbrod, F., 2017: Unpacking ecosystem service bundles: towards predictive mapping of synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services. Global Environmental Change, 47: 37-50. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.08.004
La Sorte, F.A.; Fink, D.; Blancher, P.J.; Rodewald, A.D.; Ruiz-Gutierrez, V.; Rosenberg, K.V.; Hochachka, W.M.; Verburg, P.H.; Kelling, S., 2017: Global change and the distributional dynamics of migratory bird populations wintering in Central America. Global Change Biology, 23, 12: 5284-5296. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13794
Titeux, N.; Henle, K.; Mihoub, J.; Regos, A.; Geijzendorffer, I.R.; Cramer, W.; Verburg, P.H.; Brotons, L., 2017: Global scenarios for biodiversity need to better integrate climate and land use change. Diversity and Distributions, 23, 11: 1231-1234. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12624
Loran, C.; Munteanu, C.; Verburg, P.H.; Schmatz, D.R.; Bürgi, M.; Zimmermann, N.E., 2017: Long-term change in drivers of forest cover expansion: an analysis for Switzerland (1850–2000). Regional Environmental Change, 17, 8: 2223-2235. doi: 10.1007/s10113-017-1148-y
Malek, Ž.; Verburg, P., 2017: Mediterranean land systems: representing diversity and intensity of complex land systems in a dynamic region. Landscape and Urban Planning, 165: 102-116. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.05.012
Bürgi, M.; Ali, P.; Chowdhury, A.; Heinimann, A.; Hett, C.; Kienast, F.; Mondal, M.K.; Upreti, B.R.; Verburg, P.H., 2017: Integrated landscape approach: closing the gap between theory and application. Sustainability, 9, 8: 1371 (13 pp.). doi: 10.3390/su9081371
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. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.01.003
Zagaria, C.; Schulp, C.J.E.; Kizos, T.; Gounaridis, D.; Verburg, P.H., 2017: Cultural landscapes and behavioral transformations: an agent-based model for the simulation and discussion of alternative landscape futures in East Lesvos, Greece. Land Use Policy, 65: 26-44. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.03.022
Prestele, R.; Alexander, P.; Rounsevell, M.D.A.; Arneth, A.; Calvin, 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.; ... Verburg, P.H., 2016: Hotspots of uncertainty in land-use and land-cover change projections: a global-scale model comparison. Global Change Biology, 22, 12: 3967-3983. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13337
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. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2016.07.010
Further scientific publications
Opdam, P.; Luque, S.; Nassauer, J.; Verburg, P.H.; Wu, J., 2018: How can landscape ecology contribute to sustainability science?. Landscape Ecology, 33, 1: 1-7. doi: 10.1007/s10980-018-0610-7
Koellner, T.; Schröter, M.; Schulp, C.J.E.; Verburg, P.H., 2018: Global flows of ecosystem services. Ecosystem Services, 31: 229-230. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.04.012
Bürgi, M.; Verburg, P.H.; Kuemmerle, T.; Plieninger, T., 2017: Analyzing dynamics and values of cultural landscapes. Landscape Ecology, 32, 11: 2077-2081. doi: 10.1007/s10980-017-0573-0