Simone Verzandvoort

• PhD
• Researcher at Wageningen University & Research

Soils form the basis for agricultural production and other ecosystem services, and soil management should aim at improving their quality and resilience. Within the SoilCare project, the concept of soil-improving cropping systems (SICS) was developed as a holistic approach to facilitate the adoption of soil management that is sustainable and profita...

The transition to a low carbon future is an emerging challenge and requires the planning and designing of sustainable energy landscapes - landscapes that provide renewable energy while safeguarding the supply of other ecosystem services. The aim of this paper is to present the application of an ecosystem services trade-off assessment in the develop...

Urbanisation is an ongoing global trend that is associated with soil sealing and land take at the cost of agricultural land and other open landscape. While soil sealing and land take result in the loss of all soil functions and the loss of high-quality agricultural soils, the awareness of the magnitude and negative implications of these processes r...

Only a few studies have quantified and measured ecosystem services (ES) specifically related to soil. To address this gap, we have developed and applied a methodology to assess changes in ecosystem services, based on measured or estimated soil property changes that were stimulated by soil management measures (e.g., mulching, terracing, no-till). We...

In MAGIC a first EU wide map is created to assess options for sustainably use of marginal lands to grow industrial crops. The approach builds on the JRC work to identify Areas of Natural Constraints (ANCs) (Van Oorschoven et al., 2014 and Terres et al., 2014) and other land evaluation systems for agronomic suitability. The results describe the loca...

Despite numerous research efforts over the last decades, integrating the concept of ecosystem services into land management decision-making continues to pose considerable challenges. Researchers have developed many different frameworks to operationalize the concept, but these are often specific to a certain issue and each has their own definitions...

Despite various research activities in the last decades across the world, many challenges remain to integrate the concept of ecosystem services (ESS) in decision-making, and a coherent approach to assess and value ESS is still lacking. There are a lot of different - often context-specific - ESS frameworks with their own definitions and understandin...

It has become increasingly clear that desertification can only be tackled through amulti-disciplinary approach that not only involves scientists but also stakeholders. In the DESIRE project such an approach was taken. As a first step, a conceptual framework was developed inwhich the factors and processes thatmay lead to land degradation and deserti...

Modelling soil erosion sensitivity at continental scale provides a way to compare different countries and to identify those areas that are most seriously threatened. In this research, the MESALES model was applied to 3 large areas in Europe and Morocco, using soil data from ESDB and DSMW as well as from the newly developed e-SOTER database. Land us...

Dit rapport geeft een raamwerk voor het bepalen van een ecologische voetafdruk voor veranderingen in productie- en consumptiesystemen. Het raamwerk kan worden gebruikt voor het bepalen van benodigd land- en watergebruik voor productie van goederen en diensten.

Water retention and hydraulic conductivity characteristics of the soil are indispensable for hydrological catchment modelling and for quantifying water limited agricultural production. However, these characteristics are often not available for regions and data scarcity for tropical zones is even bigger than for temperate zones. Use of pedotransfer...

De energietransitie is in volle gang in de Regio Oost-Nederland, met het ontstaan van nieuwe samenwerkingsverbanden en de opkomst van grote en kleine initiatieven voor technologische innovaties. Eind 2012 is een ‘energiescan’ gemaakt voor de Regio Oost-Nederland1 om het Ministerie van EZ (Directie RRE en het Regioteam Oost) inzicht te geven in de o...

The South-European part of the Russian Federation has experienced serious land degradation in the form of soil salinization since the 1960s. This land degradation was caused by intensive, large-scale irrigation on reclaimed land in combination with the salt-rich nature of the substrate. Alkaline soil salinity is believed to be an important factor d...

Since 1992, the World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) initiative has developed a standardized method for documentation of Sustainable Land Management (SLM) practices. The resulting on-line database currently counts over 450 technologies and over 350 approaches (implementation strategies) from around 50 countries. WOCAT...

Desire for Greener Land compiles options for Sustainable Land Management (SLM) in drylands. It is a result of the integrated research project DESIRE (Desertification Mitigation and Remediation of Land - A Global Approach for Local Solutions). Lasting five years (2007–2012) and funded within the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme, DESIRE brought togethe...

Reflectie op de rol van het project Duurzaam Doenderzoek in de Zeeuwse Delta in het werk aan duurzame ontwikkeling van de Provincie Zeeland. Duurzaamheid vormgeven via het concept van ecosysteemdiensten. Het bijzondere van dit project zit niet in de theoretische benadering vanuit bodem en natuur, maar in het feit dat we het gebeurt, en wel met mens...

Bodemhydraulische karakteristieken zijn relaties van vochtgehalte (θ) en doorlatendheid (K) met de capillaire drukhoogte (h) in de onverzadigde zone van de bodem. Deze karakteristieken worden gebruikt voor modelsimulaties van het transport van water en opgeloste stoffen in de onverzadigde zone van de bodem. Doel van deze studie is de bij Alterra be...

For land degradation monitoring and assessment (M&A) to be accurate and for sustainable land management (SLM) to be effective, it is necessary to incorporate multiple knowledges using a variety of methods and scales, and this must include the (potentially conflicting) perspectives of those who use the land. This paper presents a hybrid methodologic...

Alterra heeft in 2011 in samenwerking met DLG een aantal studies uitgevoerd naar de mogelijkheden om het concept ecosysteemdiensten in te zetten bij ruimtelijke planvorming. Een van de pilots, die zich aandiende kwam uit Heerlen. De Gemeente wil graag dat private partijen en burgers (ook groepen van bewoners, stichtingen en verenigingen) participer...

In order to effectively formulate mitigation strategies and implement conservation measurements to counteract soil erosion, it is essential to objectively identify and quantify areas at risk. With the adoption of the European Union (EU) Thematic Strategy for soil protection, a first step is made towards adequate measures to combat soil erosion and...

The demand for agricultural products (food, feed, fibre, and biomass for other purposes) produced in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will increase for the coming decades. In addition, the global climate change will largely impact on the agricultural sector in Sub-Saharan Africa. Major challenges for the agricultural sector in SSA are that agricultural pro...

Voor de workshop is een venster ontworpen met vraagstukken die spelen in het gebied rondom Schiphol. De vraag aan de deelnemers over dit venster is: “vind slimme oplossingen, toepasbaar binnen verschillende domeinen, en die waarden toevoegen aan de vraagstukken”. De werkopdracht is een oplossing te bedenken voor de inrichting van het gebied, die te...

Waterretentie- en doorlatendheidskarakteristiek worden gebruikt in simulatiemodellen voor water- en stoftransport in de onverzadigde zone. De gegevens worden gebruikt in studies naar voedsel- en biomassaproductie, het gebruik van bodem en water als grondstoffen, de emissie van broeikasgassen, het risico van uitspoeling van vervuilende stoffen naar...

Een ruimtelijke inventarisatie van ecosysteemdiensten waaruit blijkt wie de potentiële gebruikers zijn van ecosysteemdiensten (zoals: voedselproductie, energieproductie, drinkwaterproductie; waterberging, koolstofvastlegging, klimaatbeheersing, plaagwering; recreatie en leefbaarheid)

Doel van de workshop was het verbinden van verschillende ideeën en hun initiatiefnemers voor een duurzame ontwikkeling van de Provincie Zeeland, een duurzame ontwikkeling geschetst in streefbeelden. Burgers, (mede)overheden, onderwijs- en kennisinstellingen, bedrijfsleven en maatschappelijke organisaties leveren ieder vanuit hun rol en verantwoorde...

Een ruimtelijke inventarisatie van ecosysteemdiensten waaruit blijkt wie de potentiële gebruikers zijn van ecosysteemdiensten (zoals: voedselproductie, energieproductie, drinkwaterproductie; waterberging, koolstofvastlegging, klimaatbeheersing, plaagwering; recreatie en leefbaarheid)

Central to the EU thematic strategy for soil protection is that areas affected by soil degradation through erosion, soil organic matter (SOM) decline, compaction, salinization and landslides should be identified in a clear and consistent way. However, the current methodologies to achieve this often differ and this can result in different perception...

Advances in knowledge and technologies during the last decades have led to considerable water savings in many irrigated areas around the world. These have often been achieved through modern water supply methodologies involving, for example, advanced drip and sprinkler irrigation. These methods, however, are costly and socio-economically not always...

Soil hydraulic functions underpin many results of research for advise on environmental policy in The Netherlands. Examples include numerical simulations of the leaching of pesticides, nitrate and phosphate, the drying of natural areas due to the lowering of groundwater levels to benefit the agricultural sector, and of the soil water storage capacit...

Almost all developed countries use risk assessment methodologies (RAMs) for the evaluation of risks related to soil degradation, viz. soil organic matter decline, erosion, landslides, salinization and/or compaction. However and for various reasons, seldom the use of such RAMs seldom results in actual measures to combat soil degradation in practice....

Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Programme (2002-2006) Dissemination Level PU Public PU PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services) RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services) CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium...

Sustainable land use planning is crucial for realizing the aim of food security and for combating land degradation in the Sahel. A participatory land use planning workshop was organised in a village in the eastern region of Burkina Faso to investigate land use problems, their causes, effects and possible solutions. Participatory research tools and...