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14566
World Ranking
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National Ranking
106

Overview

Kasper Kok is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on global and planetary change, management science and operations research, economics and econometrics, artificial intelligence, and sociology and political science.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Cognitive Science and Mapping
  • Complex Systems and Decision Making
  • Demographic Modeling and Climate Adaptation
  • Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

Kasper Kok has published extensively in several journals and platforms. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Regional Environmental Change
  • Ecology and Society
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Global Environmental Change

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Achievements and needs for the climate change scenario framework," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "Scenario processes for socio-environmental systems analysis of futures: A review of recent efforts and a salient research agenda for supporting decision making," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Shared Socio-economic Pathways for European agriculture and food systems: The Eur-Agri-SSPs," 2020, Global Environmental Change
  • "Exploring Alternative Futures in the Anthropocene," 2023, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • "Potential biodiversity change in Central Asian grasslands: scenarios for the impact of climate and land-use change," 2020, Regional Environmental Change

Frequent collaborators of Kasper Kok include:

  • Simona Pedde
  • Maria A. Gasalla
  • Derek P. Tittensor
  • Emma Archer
  • Israel Borokini

Best Publications

  • The roads ahead: Narratives for shared socioeconomic pathways describing world futures in the 21st century

    Brian C. O'Neill;Elmar Kriegler;Kristie L. Ebi;Eric Kemp-Benedict

  • Comparing the input, output, and validation maps for several models of land change

    Robert Gilmore Pontius;Wideke Boersma;Jean-Christophe Castella;Keith Clarke

  • A spatial explicit allocation procedure for modelling the pattern of land use change based upon actual land use

    P.H. Verburg;G.H.J. de Koning;K. Kok;A. Veldkamp

  • Achievements and needs for the climate change scenario framework.

    Brian C. O'Neill;Brian C. O'Neill;Timothy R. Carter;Kristie L. Ebi;Paula A. Harrison

  • Combining participative backcasting and exploratory scenario development: Experiences from the SCENES project

    Kasper Kok;Mathijs van Vliet;Ilona Bärlund;Anna Dubel

  • Participatory scenario construction in land use analysis: An insight into the experiences created by stakeholder involvement in the Northern Mediterranean

    Mita Patel;Kasper Kok;Dale S. Rothman

  • Modeling Land-Use and Land-Cover Change

    Peter H. Verburg;Kasper Kok;Robert Gilmore Pontius;A. Veldkamp

  • Challenges to scenario-guided adaptive action on food security under climate change

    Joost M. Vervoort;Joost M. Vervoort;Philip K. Thornton;Philip K. Thornton;Patti Kristjanson;Wiebke Förch

  • Linking Futures across Scales: a Dialog on Multiscale Scenarios

    Reinette Biggs;Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne;Carol Atkinson-Palombo;Erin Bohensky

  • Methods for Developing Multiscale Participatory Scenarios: Insights from Southern Africa and Europe

    Kasper Kok;Reinette Biggs;Monika Zurek

  • Managing the effects of multiple stressors on aquatic ecosystems under water scarcity. The GLOBAQUA project

    Alícia Navarro-Ortega;Vicenç Acuña;Alberto Bellin;Peter Burek

  • Positive tipping points in a rapidly warming world

    J David Tàbara;Niki Frantzeskaki;Katharina Hölscher;Simona Pedde

  • The distribution of roles and functions for upscaling and outscaling innovations in agricultural innovation systems

    Frans Hermans;Frans Hermans;Marian Stuiver;P.J. Beers;Kasper Kok

  • A method and application of multi-scale validation in spatial land use models

    Kasper Kok;Andrew Farrow;A Veldkamp;Peter H Verburg

  • Identification of vulnerable areas for gully erosion under different scenarios of land abandonment in Southeast Spain

    J.P. Lesschen;K. Kok;P.H. Verburg;L.H. Cammeraat

  • Evaluating impact of spatial scales on land use pattern analysis in Central America

    Kasper Kok;A Veldkamp

  • Enhancing the relevance of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways for climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability research

    Bas J. van Ruijven;Marc A. Levy;Arun Agrawal;Frank Biermann

  • Multi-scale narratives from an IA perspective: Part I. European and Mediterranean scenario development

    Kasper Kok;Dale S. Rothman;Mita Patel

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem services require IPBES to take novel approach to scenarios

    Marcel T. J. Kok;Kasper Kok;Garry D. Peterson;Rosemary Hill

  • Governance, scale and the environment: the importance of recognizing knowledge claims in transdisciplinary arenas

    Marleen Buizer;Bas Arts;Kasper Kok

  • Multi-scale narratives from an IA perspective: Part II. Participatory local scenario development

    Kasper Kok;Mita Patel;Dale S. Rothman;Giovanni Quaranta

Frequent Co-Authors

A. Veldkamp
A. Veldkamp University of Twente
Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Detlef P. van Vuuren
Detlef P. van Vuuren Utrecht University
Paula A. Harrison
Paula A. Harrison Lancaster University
Ian P. Holman
Ian P. Holman Cranfield University
Bas Arts
Bas Arts Wageningen University & Research
Elmar Kriegler
Elmar Kriegler Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Brian C. O'Neill
Brian C. O'Neill Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Reinette Biggs
Reinette Biggs Stellenbosch University
Philip K. Thornton
Philip K. Thornton Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

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