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Author: Maurice de Kleijn

Simulating future urban heat islands using the socio-economic scenarios

Climate change is likely to affect living conditions in urban areas, causing, for example, an increase in the urban heat island effect. Understanding why urban areas have a higher temperature than their rural surroundings and finding appropriate adaptation measures are

Maurice de Kleijn 2nd September 20138th November 2018 Climate change, Education, Land-Use Modelling, Research No Comments Read more

SPINlab GIS-student awarded ESRI Young Scholars Award 2013

Joris Tieleman, educated in GIS by the SPINlab during his VU-master studies in Spatial, Transport and Environmental Economics (STREEM), has won the prestiguous national ESRI Young Scholar Award 2013 for his UvA master thesis in Human Geography entitled The Shifting Cityscape

Maurice de Kleijn 20th June 20138th November 2018 Education No Comments Read more

Knowledge for climate – Theme 8: Socio-economic scenarios updated

The updated land-use projections related to the Global Economy (GE) and Regional Communities (RC) scenarios have been released. These scenarios were initially developed by a consortium of Dutch research institutes (CPB et al., 2006) and translated into land-use projections in

Maurice de Kleijn 1st March 20138th November 2018 Land Use Scanner, Land-Use Modelling No Comments Read more

Geoplaza UBVU-SPINlab genomineerd voor Nederlands Dataprijs DANS-KNAW

Uit 40 inzendingen zijn drie datasets genomineerd voor de Nederlandse Dataprijs voor humaniora en sociale wetenschappen, jaarlijks uitgereikt door DANS-KNAW. Het Geoplaza dataportaal van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is een van de drie genomineerden “De drie genomineerde datasets hebben stuk

Maurice de Kleijn 5th October 201229th June 2016 Support No Comments Read more

Henk Scholten en SPINlab genomineerd voor de Huibregtsenprijs 2012

Hoogleraar Ruimtelijke Informatica Henk Scholten is, samen met zes anderen, genomineerd voor de Huibregtsenprijs 2012 voor het beste Nederlandse onderzoek ‘dat opvallend wetenschappelijk vernieuwend is en dat uitzicht biedt op een waardevol maatschappelijk effect’. Henk Scholten heeft de nominatie in

Maurice de Kleijn 27th September 20128th November 2018 News No Comments Read more

SPINlab participeert in Weekend van de Wetenschap op Geofort

Geodan, het Spatial Information Laboratory (SPINlab) van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, het Waterschap Rivierenland en GeoFort hebben een leuk en leerzaam programma samengesteld voor het Weekend van de Wetenschap bij GeoFort. Met de spellen “Te land, te gracht en in

Maurice de Kleijn 27th September 20128th November 2018 News No Comments Read more

Geoplaza UBVU now officially opened

The Geoplaza, a combined effort from UBVU and SPINlab, is officialy on-line. This Spatial Data Infrastructure offers a growing collection spatial data. Everyone can view the data, in most cases download functionality is limited to VU staff and students only.

Maurice de Kleijn 11th November 201129th June 2016 Support No Comments Read more

Best Paper Award for Eveline van Leeuwen and Jasper Dekkers

Eveline van Leeuwen & Jasper Dekkers, assistant professors at the Department of Spatial Economics, were awarded the Best Paper Award for early career/doctoral students at the annual conference of the Regional Science Assoc. Intl – British & Irish section

Maurice de Kleijn 27th August 201029th June 2016 News, Research No Comments Read more

EduGIS project wins Geo-Innovation Award 2009

EduGIS, the GIS portal for education in the Netherlands, has won the Societal Geo-Innovation Award 2009. EduGIS was chosen as the best from a selection of 24 projects.

Maurice de Kleijn 3rd September 200929th June 2016 EduGIS No Comments Read more

GIScience book available by Scholten, Van de Velde and Van Manen

This highly anticipated book by Lifetime Achievement Award-winning co-editor Prof. Dr. Scholten is now available from Springer.

Maurice de Kleijn 23rd July 20098th November 2018 News, Research No Comments Read more
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