Langezijds

dr. Y. Dou (Yue)

Assistant Professor
ITC-NRS
Langezijds 1121
yue.dou@utwente.nl
+31534897822
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My research program focuses on applying geospatial analysis and modeling approaches to study food systems in the context of global change. I am particularly interested in addressing human actors’ heterogeneity and agency in land use modeling, through which leverage points of the system can be identified for interventions.

My overarching goal is to provide sustainable solutions for social and ecological issues associated with land use change and food systems, such as: how to effectively reduce deforestation, enhance biodiversity accounting for land management, and safeguard food security and livelihood. A main part of my research portfolio is using novel geo-simulation (e.g., agent-based model, optimization land use model) as a hub, facilitated by spatio-temporal analysis to simulate different human agents (e.g., smallholder farmers, supply-chain actors, government officials) interacting with different environments (e.g., the fast-changing Amazon delta, Brazilian savannah–Cerrado, different bioclimatic regions of Europe). 

I welcome students who are interested in topics relevant to food security, and in methods of agent-based models, spatial analysis to contact me. 

For a complete profile please visit my Google Scholar page.

Expertise

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

    • Sustainability
    • Production

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Area
    • Land
    • Land Use
    • Investigation
    • Land Cover
    • Time Series

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Publications

2025

Local food system resilience in China integrating supply and demand (2025)Global Food Security, 44. Article 100830. Liang, X., Dou, Y., Ohuru, R., de By, R., Jin, X., Feng, S., Meng, F. & Zhou, Y.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100830Participation in modeling social-ecological systems across scales in agriculture and forestry (2025)Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling, 7. Article 18614. Meyer, M., Dou, Y., Delden, H. V., Nguyen, T. T. & Lippe, M.https://doi.org/10.18174/sesmo.18614Effect of food value-chain connections on land-use change (2025)Geography and Sustainability, 6(1). Article 100247. Post, P., Dou, Y. & Nelson, A. D.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geosus.2024.10.003

2024

Stakeholder perspectives on fostering the water-energy-food nexus in Jordan: Lessons beyond agricultural water management (2024)Environmental Research: Food Systems, 2. Article 015009. Chemura, A., Al-Smadi, W., Abkah, A., Sawwan, J., Alananbeh, A., Farhan, I., Ghnaimat, A., Alkhatatbeh, H., Al-Daraien, R., Al-Qudah, T., Hassouneh, K., Al Naimat, M., Hamdi, L., Abuhammor, W., Handam, A., Hamdan, M., Daoud, H., Bani Eassa, A., Al-Salaymeh, B., … Darvishzadeh, R.https://doi.org/10.1088/2976-601X/ad992bA robust method for mapping soybean by phenological aligning of Sentinel-2 time series (2024)ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, 218(part B), 1-18. Huang, X., Vrieling, A., Dou, Y., Belgiu, M. & Nelson, A.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2024.10.015Exploring China's food security evolution from a local perspective (2024)Applied geography, 172. Article 103427. Liang, X., Jin, X., Dou, Y., Meng, F. & Zhou, Y.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103427Habitat Suitability of European Land Systems for Terrestrial Vertebrates (2024)Global ecology and biogeography, 33(11), 1-5. Article e13903. O'Connor, L., Renaud, J., Dou, Y., Karger, D., Maiorano, L., Verburg, P. & Thuiller, W.https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13903A data-driven approach for estimating regional food flows fusing earth observation and geospatial data (2024)In IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Proceedings (pp. 897-900) (International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)). IEEE. Paris, C., Khan, M., Cattaneo, M. & Dou, Y.https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10640910EO-derived geospatial data for monitoring food and nutrition security: A case study of Rwanda (2024)In IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Proceedings (pp. 3860-3863) (International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)). IEEE. Dusabe, B., Dou, Y., Manners, R. & Paris, C.https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10640900Aspiration Adaptation, Poverty, and Agricultural Management: An Agent-Based Modelling Study (2024)In Advances in Social Simulation: Proceedings of the 18th Social Simulation Conference, 2023 (pp. 217-233) (Springer Proceedings in Complexity). Springer. Teeuwen, A. S., Dou, Y., Meyer, M. A., Mekonnen, D. A., Teferi, E. T., Wassie, S. B. & Nelson, A.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57785-7_17

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

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Courses academic year 2023/2024

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Langezijds (building no. 19), room 1121
Hallenweg 8
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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