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Jos Van Orshoven

Jos Van Orshoven

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
38
Citations
5372
World Ranking
8658
National Ranking
111

Overview

Jos Van Orshoven is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has a body of research primarily focused on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans several subfields including global and planetary change, water science and technology, soil science, plant science, and environmental engineering.

The scientist's research addresses key topics such as hydrology and watershed management studies, soil erosion and sediment transport, flood risk assessment and management, urban green space and health, forest management and policy, land use and ecosystem services, and forest ecology and management.

Jos Van Orshoven has contributed to numerous publications in various academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Landscape and Urban Planning
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Land
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Recent notable papers include:

  • Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods to Address Water Allocation Problems: A Systematic Review, 2021, Water
  • Multi-criteria decision making methods to address rural land allocation problems: A systematic review, 2021, International Soil and Water Conservation Research
  • Analysis of Land Use Land Cover Dynamics and Driving Factors in Desa'a Forest in Northern Ethiopia, 2020, Land Use Policy
  • Exposure to green space and pollen allergy symptom severity: A case-crossover study in Belgium, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Residential green space and medication sales for childhood asthma: A longitudinal ecological study in Belgium, 2020, Environmental Research

Collaborations have been a consistent aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including Ben Somers, Bart Muys, Raf Aerts, Ilié Storms, and Bruno Verbist.

Best Publications

  • Comparison and ranking of different modelling techniques for prediction of site index in Mediterranean mountain forests

    Wim Aertsen;Vincent Kint;Jos Van Orshoven;Kuersad Ozkan

  • Methods to optimise the design and management of biomass-for-bioenergy supply chains: A review

    Annelies De Meyer;Dirk Cattrysse;Jussi Rasinmäki;Jos Van Orshoven

  • Functional evaluation of pedotransfer functions for the estimation of soil hydraulic properties.

    H. Vereecken;J. Diels;J. Van Orshoven;J. Feyen

  • Global mapping of Jatropha curcas yield based on response of fitness to present and future climate.

    Antonio Trabucco;Antonio Trabucco;Wouter M. J. Achten;Colm Bowe;Raf Aerts

  • Soil organic carbon changes in landscape units of Belgium between 1960 and 2000 with reference to 1990

    Suzanna Lettens;Jos Van Orshoven;Bas Van Wesemael;Bart Muys

  • A generic mathematical model to optimise strategic and tactical decisions in biomass-based supply chains (OPTIMASS)

    Annelies De Meyer;Dirk Cattrysse;Jos Van Orshoven

  • Comparing multiple criteria decision methods to extend a geographical information system on afforestation

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  • Stocks and fluxes of soil organic carbon for landscape units in Belgium derived from heterogeneous data sets for 1990 and 2000

    Suzanna Lettens;Jos Van Orshoven;Bas van Wesemael;Bruno De Vos

  • Soil organic and inorganic carbon contents of landscape units in Belgium derived using data from 1950 to 1970

    S. Lettens;Jos Van Orshoven;Bas van Wesemael;Bart Muys

  • Monitoring Solute Transport in a Multi-Layered Sandy Lysimeter using Time Domain Reflectometry

    Marnik Vanclooster;D. Mallants;J. Vanderborght;J. Diels

  • Sub-pixel classification of SPOT-VEGETATION time series for the assessment of regional crop areas in Belgium

    Sara Verbeiren;Herman Eerens;Isabelle Piccard;Ides Bauwens;Ides Bauwens

  • Ecosystem services: a useful concept for soil policy making!

    AM Breure;GB De Deyn;E Dominati;T Eglin

  • Evaluation of modelling techniques for forest site productivity prediction in contrasting ecoregions using stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis (SMAA)

    Wim Aertsen;Vincent Kint;Jos Van Orshoven;Bart Muys

  • Variable carbon recovery of Walkley‐Black analysis and implications for national soil organic carbon accounting

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  • A time series processing tool to extract climate-driven interannual vegetation dynamics using Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD)

    Pieter Hawinkel;Pieter Hawinkel;Else Swinnen;Stef Lhermitte;Bruno Verbist

  • Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods to Address Water Allocation Problems: A Systematic Review

    Sintayehu Legesse Gebre;Dirk Cattrysse;Jos Van Orshoven

  • A Network Perspective on Spatial Data Infrastructures: Application to the Sub‐national SDI of Flanders (Belgium)

    Danny Vandenbroucke;Joep Crompvoets;Glenn Vancauwenberghe;Ezra Dessers

  • Digital Technologies for Forest Supply Chain Optimization: Existing Solutions and Future Trends

    Johannes Scholz;Annelies De Meyer;Alexandra S. Marques;Tatiana M. Pinho

  • Vegetation response to precipitation variability in East Africa controlled by biogeographical factors.

    P. Hawinkel;P. Hawinkel;Wim Thiery;S.L.M. Lhermitte;E. Swinnen

  • Assessing soil organic carbon stocks under current and potential forest cover using digital soil mapping and spatial generalisation

    Sam Ottoy;Bruno De Vos;Anicet Sindayihebura;Martin Hermy

  • Predicting forest site productivity in temperate lowland from forest floor, soil and litterfall characteristics using boosted regression trees

    Wim Aertsen;Vincent Kint;Bruno De Vos;Jozef Deckers

  • Measuring extent, location and change of imperviousness in urban domestic gardens in collective housing projects

    Klaartje Verbeeck;Jos Van Orshoven;Martin Hermy

  • A structured database of Belgian soil profile data

    Jos Van Orshoven;J Maes;H Vereecken;Jan Feyen

  • Contrasting collective preferences for outdoor recreation and substitutability of nature areas using hot spot mapping

    Jeremy De Valck;Jeremy De Valck;Steven Broekx;Inge Liekens;Leo De Nocker

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Feyen
Jan Feyen University of Cuenca
Bart Muys
Bart Muys KU Leuven
Martin Hermy
Martin Hermy KU Leuven
Raf Aerts
Raf Aerts KU Leuven
Jozef Deckers
Jozef Deckers KU Leuven
Tim S. Nawrot
Tim S. Nawrot Hasselt University
Ben Somers
Ben Somers KU Leuven
Okke Batelaan
Okke Batelaan Flinders University

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