Institute full name:

University of Leeds

Institute acronym:

Leeds

Institute profile:

The University of Leeds has expertise in integrated modeling, coupling agent-based, regional economic, hydrological, nutrient flow, erosion and biodiversity models at a landscape scale. Environmental Science in Leeds is a recognised centre of research excellence, as the second largest recipient of the Government’s Natural Environment Research Council blue skies funding. The University’s Sustainability Research Institute is a centre of excellence for participatory research, conducting interdisciplinary environmental analysis for sustainable land management, and the River Basin Processes and Management research group in the School of GeographyLeedsEurope and Africa through a series of EU-funded projects (e.g. MEDALUS, DESERTLINKS, PESERA) and other bodies (e.g. UNDP/GEF, Royal Society, UK Government Research Councils). The team conducts strategic and applied research that connects environmental knowledge to public and private sector decision making at local, regional, national and international levels. regularly publishes in top journals including Nature and Science.

Website

www.leeds.ac.uk

Address

University of Leeds

Woodhouse Lane

Leeds

LS2 9JT

United Kingdom

Fax: +44 113 3436716

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Involved personnel

Name	Contact details	Key qualifications	Photo
Dr Mark Reed	Tel: +44 113 3433316 E-mail: Mark.Reed@bcu.ac.uk	Interdisciplinary research on participatory conservation, focusing on land degradation, sustainability indicators and participatory processes.
Prof Mike Kirkby	Tel: +44 113 3433310 Fax: +44 113 34 33308 E-mail: m.j.kirkby@leeds.ac.uk	Physical geographer specialising in modeling landscape processes including: hillslope sediment transport processesm, hillslope and network hydrology; and landscape and regional scale models.
Dr Brian Irvine	Email: B.J.Irvine@leeds.ac.uk
Dr Luuk Fleskens	Email: L.Fleskens@leeds.ac.uk	Luuk’s research focuses on developing integrated models and methodologies capable of assessing the impact of environmental change as well as evaluating the effects of adaptation and mitigation strategies on rural livelihoods and ecosystem services.
Dr Doan Nainggolan	Email: dna@dmu.dk	Doan has a background in natural resource management and ecological economics. His research interest revolves around developing quantitative modelling approaches to integrate human (socio-economic) processes and data and biophysical spatial processes and data which can be used to better understand trajectories or pathways of socio-environmental (or socio-ecological) changes under different plausible future scenarios.
Dr Lindsay Stringer	E-mail: l.stringer@see.leeds.ac.uk	Lindsay is a physical geographer whose research is interdisciplinary and uses theories and methods from both the natural and social sciences to understand the political ecologies of environmental change.

Institute full name:

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Onderzoeksgroep Fysische en Regionale Geografie

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KU Leuven

Institute profile:

The Physical and Regional Geography Research Group, KU Leuven, has a strong expertise in the fields of soil erosion assessment at various spatial and temporal scales (from the experimental plot to the river basin) using laboratory experiments, field techniques and spatial modeling, but also in desertification processes, soil and water conservation. An important research topic of the last decade has been the impact of land use change on water and sediment fluxes at a range of spatial scales. The group has extensive working and research experience in Mediterranean,  semi-arid and tropical environments through research projects in the European Mediterranean, the Middle East, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Ecuador, Vietnam and China. The group brings important expertise to the project with respect to the monitoring and modeling of land degradation, soil and water conservation techniques.

Website

http://ees.kuleuven.be/geography/index.html

Address

Division of Geography
KU Leuven
Celestijnenlaan 200E
B-3001 Heverlee
Belgium
Fax: +32/16/32.29.80

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Name	Contact details	Key qualifications	Photo
Prof. Dr. Jean Poesen	Tel: +32 16326425 E-mail: jean.poesen@ees.kuleuven.be	Physical geographer; specialist in soil erosion, hillslope hydrology, desertification, soil erosion control as well as soil and water conservation practices.
Dr Matthias Vanmaercke	Tel: +32 16 326420 E-mail: matthias.vanmaercke@ees.kuleuven.be	Physical Geographer; Specialist in monitoring and modelling of sediment export of river basins; at various spatial scales.
Willem Maetens MSc	Email: willem.maetens@ees.kuleuven.be	Bio. Eng. Specialist in the analysis of meta-data related to soil and water conservation