Sustainable Land Use
Sustainable Land Use ensures a fair and balanced distribution of land, water, biodiversity and other environmental resources between the various competing claims, in order to secure human needs now and in the future.
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Wageningen Environmental Research integrates knowledge on soil, water, biodiversity and environmental management in order to address conflicting claims to natural resources, while maintaining social and economic security and preserving the environment. We develop this knowledge for partners in education, policy, private businesses and investment companies.
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- Land rehabilitation: A global approach for local solutions
- Sustainable pesticide management: Ensuring sustainable use of natural resources
- Soil fertility management: Tools to improve farm soil fertility management – anywhere
- Making your data come alive: Our high-quality data makes effective policies possible
- Integrated land use planning: Combining communities, wildlife and tourism
- Sustainable development of African growth corridors: Integrated solutions for positive trade-off between economic and environmental outcomes
- Working with the European Environment Agency (EEA) topic centres & service contracts
Chair groups involved in this programme
Education at WUR
- MOOC: 'Landscape Governance: Collaborating Across Sectors and Scales'
- MOOC: 'Landscape Finance: Investing in Innovation for Sustainable Landscapes'
- MOOC: Soil4Life: 'Sustainable Soil Management'
- MOOC: 'Drainage in Agriculture: controlling water and salt levels in the soil'
- Bachelor's 'Soil, Water, Atmosphere'
- Bachelor 'Landschapsarchitectuur en Ruimtelijke Planning'
- Bachelor's 'International Land and Water Management'
- Master's 'Earth and Environment'
- Master's 'Geo-Information Science'
- Master's 'International Land and Water Management'
- Master's 'Landscape Architecture and Planning'
News
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Road networks stretch into Congo Basin forests: Satellites and AI help to monitor
The Congo Basin rainforest is the second-largest tropical forest in the world, storing large volumes of carbon and hosting high levels of... -
Inauguration Gerard Velthof: ‘Stop manure, nitrogen and climate policies working against each other’
As a farmer, how should you manage your soil in the labyrinth of environmental policy? Gerard Velthof will focus on this question in his inaugural... -
Sven Stremke appointed personal professor Post-carbon Landscape Design
The Executive Board has appointed Sven Stremke as personal professor for Post-carbon Landscape Design in the Landscape Architecture Chair Group at the... -
Soil navigator: a tool for optimising soil usage
The soil has a key role to play in terms of combatting climate change, feeding 10 billion people in 2050, and the preservation and recovery of... -
Green Circle deals with subsidence in Alblasserwaard
As a result of subsidence, the characteristic fen meadow landscape of Alblasserwaard has come under pressure. The same goes for the economic position...
Projects
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FERTIMANURE: Production of high-added value FERTilisers from animal MANURE
FERTIMANURE is a Horizon 2020 project entitled innovative nutrient recovery from secondary sources - Production of high-added value FERTilisers from... -
EJP SOIL: European Joint Programme on Soil
The main objective of the European Joint Program on Soil (EJP SOIL) is to develop and share knowledge to enhance the contribution of agricultural... -
CommonGround Uganda
Watersheds in the densely populated highlands of Uganda are increasingly threatened by land degradation, due to increased land use for agricultural... -
COcreating LANdscape based aDaptation of urban regions enhancing biodivERsity (Het Ronde Landschap)
Cities face major challenges such as increasing population pressure, energy transition, urban densification, the prevention of flooding and heat... -
Peatlands in the new circular and climate-positive production systems (GREENDEAL)
Peat soils are the most fragile soils in the Netherlands and contain the largest part of the organic matter store in Dutch soils. Decomposition of...
Facilities
- Soil Physics Laboratory
- Chemical Biological Soil Laboratory (CLBL)
- GEODESKGeodesk
- Dutch Soil Information System (SIS)
- Wageningen University & Research Unmanned Aerial Remote Sensing Facility (UARSF)
Maps, software and models
- GridWalk/SmallSteps: a movement model, simulating movement through an abitrarily complex heterogeneous landscape.
- WOCAT: World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies
- Land Cover in the Netherlands for 2012 according to European CORINE standard - CLC2006, CLC2012 and the CLC-changes2006-2012 land cover databases are available for the Netherlands.
- User-Centered Design Framework - Wageningen Environmental Research wants to make its data and research results better accessible to non-scientists.
- WOFOST (WOrld FOod STudies)is a simulation model for the quantitative analysis of the growth and production of annual field crops.
- SWAP (Soil, Water, Atmosphere and Plant) simulates transport of water, solutes and heat in unsaturated/ saturated soils.
- BioESoil: This tool has been developed by Wageningen Environmental Research and CLM to assess the impacts of bio-energy on soil quality.