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dr. Y. Dou (Yue)

Assistant Professor

About Me

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

Earth & Environmental Sciences
Household
Labor Migration
Livelihood
Protected Area
Spillover Effect
Sustainable Development Goal
Agriculture & Biology
Households
Livelihood

Publications

Recent
Yang, H., Dietz, T., Li, Y. , Dou, Y., Wang, Y., Huang, Q., Zhang, J., Songer, M., & Liu, J. (2022). Unraveling human drivers behind complex interrelationships among sustainable development goals: a demonstration in a flagship protected area. Ecology and society, 27(3), [15]. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13275-270315
Yang, H., Ligmann-Zielinska, A. , Dou, Y., Chung, M. G., Zhang, J., & Liu, J. (2022). Complex effects of telecouplings on forest dynamics: An agent-based modeling approach. Earth Interactions, 26(1), 15-27. https://doi.org/10.1175/EI-D-20-0029.1
Yang, H., Vina, A., Winkler, J. A., Chung, M. G., Huang, Q. , Dou, Y., McShea, W. J., Songer, M., Zhang, J., & Liu, J. (2021). A global assessment of the impact of individual protected areas on preventing forest loss. Science of the total environment, 777, 1-10. [145995]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145995
Dou, Y., Cosentino, F., Malek, Z., Maiorano, L., Thuiller, W., & Verburg, P. H. (2021). A new European land systems representation accounting for landscape characteristics. Landscape ecology, 36, 2215-2234. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-021-01227-5
da Silva, R. F. B., Vina, A., Moran, E. F. , Dou, Y., Batistella, M., & Liu, J. (2021). Socioeconomic and environmental effects of soybean production in metacoupled systems. Scientific reports, 11, 1-12. [18662]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98256-6
Dou, Y., Yao, G., Herzberger, A., da Silva, R. F. B., Song, Q., Hovis, C., Batistella, M., Moran, E., Wu, W., & Liu, J. (2020). Land-use changes in distant places: implementation of a telecoupled agent-based model. Journal of artificial societies and social simulation, 23(1), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.4211
Dou, Y., Deadman, P. J., Berbés-Blázquez, M., Vogt, N. D., & Almeida, O. (2020). Pathways out of poverty through the lens of development resilience: an agent-based simulation. Ecology and society, 25(4), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11842-250403
Liu, J. , Dou, Y., Batistella, M., Challies, E., Connor, T., Friis, C., Millington, J., Parish, E., Romulo, C., da Silva, R. F. B., Triezenberg, H., Yang, H., Zhao, Z., Zimmerer, K., Huettmann, F., Treglia, M. L., Basher, Z., Chung, M. G., Herzberger, A., ... Sun, J. (2018). Spillover systems in a telecoupled Anthropocene: typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability. Current opinion in environmental sustainability, 33, 58-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.04.009

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Courses Academic Year  2022/2023

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
 

Courses Academic Year  2021/2022

Contact Details

Visiting Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
Langezijds (building no. 19), room 1121
Hallenweg 8
7522NH  Enschede
The Netherlands

Mailing Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
Langezijds  1121
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands