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Jasper van Vliet is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research mainly focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Transportation as subfields of study.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics including Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Urban Green Space and Health, Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development, Urban Transport and Accessibility, and the Impact of Light on Environment and Health.

Jasper van Vliet has contributed to multiple recent papers, including:

  • A global map of local climate zones to support earth system modelling and urban-scale environmental science (2022) published in Earth system science data
  • Continental-scale mapping and analysis of 3D building structure (2020) published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • The peri-urbanization of Europe: A systematic review of a multifaceted process (2020) published in Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Urbanisation as driver of food system transformation and opportunities for rural livelihoods (2021) published in Food Security
  • Understanding land-use change conflict: a systematic review of case studies (2021) published in Journal of Land Use Science

Frequent co-authorship collaborations include:

  • Peter H. Verburg
  • Matthias Demuzere
  • Jonas Kittner
  • Alberto Martilli
  • Gerald Mills

Their publications appear often in these venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Geography and sustainability
  • DataverseNL

Best Publications

  • Manifestations and underlying drivers of agricultural land use change in Europe

    Jasper van Vliet;Henri L.F. de Groot;Piet Rietveld;Peter H. Verburg

  • Direct and indirect loss of natural area from urban expansion

    Jasper van Vliet

  • A global analysis of land take in cropland areas and production displacement from urbanization

    Jasper van Vliet;David A. Eitelberg;Peter H. Verburg

  • Hotspots of uncertainty in land-use and land-cover change projections: a global-scale model comparison

    Reinhard Prestele;Peter Alexander;Mark D. A. Rounsevell;Almut Arneth

  • A review of current calibration and validation practices in land-change modeling

    Jasper van Vliet;Arnold K. Bregt;Daniel G. Brown;Hedwig van Delden

  • Land-use and land-cover changes in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia: Assessment of perception and adaptation of stakeholders

    Adenew Taffa Ariti;Adenew Taffa Ariti;Jasper van Vliet;Peter H. Verburg

  • Uncertainties in Ecosystem Service Maps: A Comparison on the European Scale

    Catharina J. E. Schulp;Benjamin Burkhard;Joachim Maes;Jasper Van Vliet

  • Continental-scale mapping and analysis of 3D building structure

    Mengmeng Li;Elco Koks;Hannes Taubenböck;Hannes Taubenböck;Jasper van Vliet

  • Modeling urban growth using a variable grid cellular automaton

    Jasper van Vliet;Roger White;Suzana Dragicevic

  • Beyond land cover change: Towards a new generation of Land Use Models

    Peter H. Verburg;Peter H. Verburg;Peter Alexander;Tom Evans;Nicholas R. Magliocca

  • The peri-urbanization of Europe: A systematic review of a multifaceted process

    Brian J. Shaw;Jasper van Vliet;Peter H. Verburg

  • Direct and indirect loss of natural habitat due to built-up area expansion: a model-based analysis for the city of Wuhan, China.

    Xinli Ke;Jasper van Vliet;Ting Zhou;Peter H. Verburg

  • Meta-studies in land use science: Current coverage and prospects

    Jasper van Vliet;Nicholas R. Magliocca;Bianka Büchner;Elizabeth Cook;Elizabeth Cook

  • Urbanisation as driver of food system transformation and opportunities for rural livelihoods

    Sophie de Bruin;Sophie de Bruin;Just Dengerink;Jasper van Vliet

  • A review of global potentially available cropland estimates and their consequences for model‐based assessments

    David A. Eitelberg;Jasper van Vliet;Peter H. Verburg

  • Combining agent functional types, capitals and services to model land use dynamics

    D. Murray-Rust;C. Brown;J. Van Vliet;S. J. Alam

  • Comparison of scale and scaling issues in integrated land-use models for policy support

    H. van Delden;J. van Vliet;D.T. Rutledge;M.J. Kirkby

  • Demand for biodiversity protection and carbon storage as drivers of global land change scenarios

    David A. Eitelberg;Jasper van Vliet;Jonathan C. Doelman;Elke Stehfest

  • Integrated assessment of agricultural policies with dynamic land use change modelling

    Hedwig van Delden;Tomasz Stuczynski;Pavel Ciaian;Maria Luisa Paracchini

  • Measuring the neighbourhood effect to calibrate land use models

    Jasper van Vliet;Nick Naus;Ron J.A. van Lammeren;Arnold K. Bregt

  • Local land-use decision-making in a global context

    Žiga Malek;Bianka Douw;Jasper Van Vliet;Emma H. Van Der Zanden

  • GlobeLand30 shows little cropland area loss but greater fragmentation in China

    Qiangyi Yu;Qiong Hu;Jasper van Vliet;Peter H. Verburg;Peter H. Verburg

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Mark Rounsevell
Mark Rounsevell University of Edinburgh
K. Folkert Boersma
K. Folkert Boersma Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Hannes Taubenböck
Hannes Taubenböck German Aerospace Center
Wouter Peters
Wouter Peters Wageningen University & Research
Henk Eskes
Henk Eskes Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Arnold K. Bregt
Arnold K. Bregt Wageningen University & Research
Tom Evans
Tom Evans University of Arizona
Tobias Plieninger
Tobias Plieninger University of Göttingen
Liangzhi You
Liangzhi You International Food Policy Research Institute

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