Tom Veldkamp

Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Ir. Tom (A)
Veldkamp
October 2008
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Veldkamp
Antonie (nickname Tom)
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22-05-1963 Nieuwe Pekela, the Netherlands
Dutch
Married, two daughters
Land Dynamics: Characterisation and modelling of integrated
soil, landscape and land use systems.
Full Professor Chair Land dynamics (35 persons)
Head of Landscape Centre (220 persons) Wageningen
University and Research Centre
Scientific Director BSIK programme Transforum Agro en
Groen
GAIA building Room B114
Wageningen Agricultural University
Landscape Centre
P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen
the Netherlands
Phone: 31 (0)317 481574
Mobile: 31 (0)6 20074374
Fax: 31 (0)317 419000
email: Tom.Veldkamp@wur.nl
Research:
Since March 1998 officially registered as researcher at the Graduate School C.T. de
Wit for production ecology and resource management PE&RC.
Research fields: LAND DYNAMICS
Land evaluation, Land use cover change modelling (spatially explicit
modelling of land use/cover change)

Coupled Human-Ecological systems (modelling of feedbacks and system
analysis)
Transition towards sustainable development and Competing Claims
Quaternary geology (analysing and modelling of landscape dynamics, fluvial
systems)
Geomorphology (modelling landscape processes, sediment geochemistry)
Soil Science (soil-landscape system characterisation and impact of land use on
soil dynamics)
Invited speaker:
Workshop LUCC science plan: Kyoto August 1995.
International workshop on Fluvial Archives (FLAG) at Arcen 9-10 sept
1997.
International workshop on Modelling Global Chang Impacts on Tropical
Landscapes and Biodiversity. Bogor, Oct. 1997
The Earth’s changing land GCTE-LUCC Open Science Conference on
Global Change. Barcelona 14-18 March 1998
Symposium: New developments in land evaluation research. ASA-SSSA
annual meeting Baltimore November 1998 USA
Workshop Land use change and economic approaches. Wageningen June
1999
Lecture “land use change modelling with CLUE” Univ of Goettingen
Germany
Symposium: Soil quality. ASA-SSSA annual meeting Salt Lake City.
November 1999 USA
Symposium: Agronomic research at the landscape level. ASA-SSSA
annual meeting Salt Lake City. November 1999 USA
Workshop “Human modification of the biosphere: Key drivers of
land-use/cover change processes” Stockholm March 2000.
Invited speaker at Uppsala University Dept geography on Land use change
modelling
Lecture “unravelling tectonic and climatic signatures in fluvial records.”
Newcastle University UK. November 2000
Visiting professor at Saskatchewan University Canada June-August 2000.
Global Change open Science Conference IGBP presentation on ‘Modelling
land use change: a review June 2001
Lecture “Land use change scenario modelling” Centre for Environmental
Systems Research, University of Kassel Germany. January 2001

Workshop “Linking drivers and pathways with patterns and rates of land
change” Brussels, Belgium. 11-13 April 2002
Visiting professor at University of Louvain la Neuve, Belgium. April
2002.
Keynote Workshop “Modelling land use change in Palu” 30/09-03/10/02
Bogor Indonesia.
Chapman Conference of AGU Santa Fe US (June 2003)
LAND meeting Morelia (Mexico) 02-12-03
Stakeholder meeting EEA Copenhagen June and October 2004
Keynote VVM meeting 25-06-04
Keynote speaker at International Conference on Multi-functionality of
landscapes - analysis, evaluation and decision making Giessen Germany
May 2005
Key note speaker Soil and Water symposium Zeist. 1-2 June 2005
Invited speaker at Seminar World Soil Issues and sustainable development:
an agenda for action: 40 years on: ISRIC – World Soil Information March
2006
Keynote speaker ICG conference WICC Wageningen, modelling coupled
systems.
Keynote speaker Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België: Forum
Duurzame Landbouw: een geïntegreerde aanpak. Mei 2006
Invited speaker INPE seminar Sao Paulo, Brasil. June 2006
Invited speaker at International Symposium on ecological Engineering.
Taipei, Taiwan, Nov 2006.
Invited speaker at Macauley Institute (Scotland) January 2007
Invited speaker National University of Taiwan April 2007
Invited speaker Toekomst van Nederlands Landschap KNAW Amsterdam
May 2007
Invited speaker Third Danish Workshop on Land Systems Science October
2007
Invited Speaker at IGBP meeting Cape Town May 2008
Keynote speaker at International conference “Studying, Modeling and
Sense Making of Planet Earth” University of the Aegean, Lesbos Greece,
June 2008
Invited speaker at National Disaster center Taiwan, October 2008
Memberships
Chair of the WUR IPOP investment theme on scaling and governance

Member of the Scientific Steering committee of GLP (Global Land Project) a
joint IGBP and IHDP program.
Member of the KNAW (Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences) commission and
NVOA for the accreditation of Geosciences Research Masters
Member board of LEB FUND foundation
Member Research committee Graduate school PE&RC
Member of Advisory commission on Earth Science in Spatial Development in
the Netherlands (KNAW RAK)
Former member of the LUCC-SSC a joined IGBP and IHDP program.
Editor and Referee activities:
- Member of editorial board Ecosystems (IF 2005: 3.4)
- Member of editorial board Landscape Ecology (IF 2005: 2.5)
- Member of editorial advisory board Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment (IF
2005: 1.8)
- Field Editor Agronomy for Sustainable Development (FS 2005: 1.00)
- Member of editorial board Netherlands Journal of Geosciences (IF 2005: 0.7)
- Member of the International Board of NJAS (IF 2005: 1.0)
- Member of Editorial board Journal of Land Use Science (IF expected in 2008)
- Member of International Boards of Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Sciences
(NJAS)
- Guest Editor Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment, Special Issue: “Predicting
land use change.” Together with E. Lambin. (Impact score 1.4) No 6 on most
downloaded papers 2001
- Guest editor (Journal of Environmental Management) special issue “Modelling land
use change and its environmental impacts” with P.W. Verburg. Most downloaded
JEM issue in 2004
- Guest editor (International Journal of GIS) special issue “Modelling land use
change” with P.W. Verburg. No 7 of most cited papers of IJGIS
- Guest editor (Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment), Special Issue: “Future land
use -Europe: scenario based studies on land use and environmental impact..”
Together with P.W. Verburg and Mark Rounsevell.
- Guest editor (Geoderma) special issue “Advances in landscape-scale soil research”
with D.J. Pennock. (Impact score 1.3) (2006)
- Guest editor (Land use Policy) with Kok, K., Verburg, P.H Special Issue: “Integrated
assessment of the land system: The future of land use” (2007) (Impact score 0.77)
- Guest editor (Landscape Ecology) with E. Milne, R. Aspinall. (in prep.)

- Occasional referee for: Biological Conservation, Catena, Geoderma, Soil Science,
Geomorphology, Ecological Modelling, Agricultural Systems, Journal of
Environmental Management, Sedimentary Geology, GIS applications, Conservation
Ecology, European Journal of Soil Science, International Journal of GIS, Land Use
Policy, Environmental Management, Social Ecology, Environmental Modelling &
Software, International Journal of Earth Sciences, Journal of Quaternary Science
Reviews, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geo-information,
Water Resources Research, Urban Environment Planning, Quaternaire,
Quaternary International, Pedosphere, Forest Ecology and Management, PNAS,
Landscape and Urban Planning, Ecological Economics, Sedimentology.
- Occasional referee for funding agencies (NWO, KNAW, VLER, VLDOC, NSF,
NERC, DFG, BOKU, NASA), assessment reports of IPCC, GEO3 (UN) and project
reviews (Eco-regional Fund, NOP, CIAT, Helmholz Univ, UNDP)
List of publications in international refereed Journals and Books:
I have (co) authored 120 peer reviewed publications (35 as first author), 10 papers are accepted or in
press. My published work has been cited over 1600 times according to SCOPUS with a h-score of 23
1. Schaller, M., von Blanckenburg, F., Hovius, N., Veldkamp, A., van den berg, M.W.,
Kubik, P.W., 2004. Paleo—erosion rates from cosmogenic 10Be in a 1.3 Ma terrace
sequence: Response of the River Meuse to changes in climate and rock uplift.
Journal of Geology 112 127-144
2. Sonneveld, M.P.W., Bouma, J. and Veldkamp, A., 2004. A new perspective on the
role of the land in agriculture. In: J.S.C. Wiskerke and J.D. Van der Ploeg (Editors),
Seeds of transition: essays on novelty production, niches and regimes in agriculture.
Van Gorcum, Assen. P.183-202.
3. Verburg, P.H., A. Veldkamp 2004. Projecting land use transitions at forest fringes in
the Philippines at two spatial scales. Landscape Ecology. 19: 77-98.
4. Verburg, P.H., A. Veldkamp, Engelsman W., Zalinge, R. van, Mensvoort, M.E.F. van
Overmars, K.P., 2004. The use of models to assess the impact of land use change
on ecological processes: case studies of deforestation in South –East Asia. In:
Gerold, G., Fremerey, M., and Guhardja, E. Land use, nature conservation, and the
stability of rainforest margins in Southeast Asia. Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 3540006036
Berlin. P. 475-494.
5. Veldkamp A., Kroonenberg, S.B, Heijnis, H., Van den Berg van Saparoea, R.M.,
2004. The suitability of dated travertines as a record of fluvial incision: Allier (France)
floodplain dynamics during the Late Quaternary. Quaternaire. 15: 159-165.
6. Veldkamp, A., 2004. Palaeohydrology, Understanding Global Change Edited by: K.J.
Gregory and G. Benito Book Review. Quaternary Science Reviews 23: 731-734.

7. Verburg, P.H., A. Veldkamp , Willemen, L., Overmars, K.P., Castella, J-C., 2004.
Landscape level analysis of the sptial and temporal complexity of land use change.
AGU Chapman Conference Book. In Ecosystems and Land Use Change,
Geophysical Monographs 153, p. 217- 230.
8. Veldkamp, A. & Verburg, P.H., 2004. Editorial: Modelling land use change and
environmental impact. Special issue of Journal of Environmental Management. 72:
1-4.
9. Schoorl J.M., Boix Fayos, C., Meijer, R.J. de, Graaf, E.R. van der, Veldkamp A.,
2004. The 137 Cs techniques applied to steep Mediterranean slopes part I: analysing
effects of lithology and slope position. Catena (1) 57: 15-34.
10. Schoorl J.M., Boix Fayos, C., Meijer, R.J. de, Graaf, E.R. van der, Veldkamp A.,
2004. The 137 Cs techniques applied to steep Mediterranean slopes part II: landscape
evolution and model calibration. Catena 57. 57: 35-54
11. Verburg, P.H., Schot, P., Dijst, M., A. Veldkamp 2004. Land use change modelling:
current practice and research priorities GeoJournal. 61: 309-324.
12. Verburg, P.H. & Veldkamp, A., 2005. Editorial: Spatial modeling to explore land use
dynamics. Special issue of International Journal of GIS. 19: 99-102.
13. Claessens, L., Heuvelink, G.B.M., Schoorl, J.M. and Veldkamp, A., 2005. DEM
resolution effects on shallow landslide hazard and soil redistribution modelling. Earth
Surface Processes and Landforms 30, 461-477.
14. Sonneveld, M.P.W., Everson, T.M. and Veldkamp, A., 2005 Dynamics of land
degradation in communal grazing areas; a case study for KwaZulu-Natal, South
Africa. Land Degradation and Development. 16: 287-301.
15. Veldkamp, 2005, PEDOGENESIS AND SOIL FORMING FACTORS , in Land Use
and Land Cover, [Ed. Willy H. Verheye], in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems
(EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers,
Oxford ,UK, [http://www.eolss.net].
16. Maddy, D., Demir, T., Bridgland, D.R., Veldkamp, A., Stemerdink, C., Van der
Schriek, T., Westaway, R., 2005. A unique obliquity-controlled early Pleistocene river
terrace record from Western Turkey. Quaternary Research. 63 (3): 339-346
17. Claessens, L.F.G.; Lowe, D.J.; Hayward, B.W.; Schaap, B.F.; Schoorl, J.M.;
Veldkamp, A. 2006. Reconstructing high-magnitude/low-frequency landslide events
based on soil redistribution modelling and a Late-Holocene sediment record from
New Zealand Geomorphology 74: 29 - 49.
18. Verburg, P.H.; Overmars, K.P.; Huigen, M.G.A.; Groot, W.T. de; Veldkamp, A. 2006.
Analysis of the effects of land use change on protected areas in the Philippines.
Applied Geography 26 : 153 - 173.

19. Claessens, L., Verburg, P.H., Schoorl, J.M. and Veldkamp, A., 2006. Contribution of
topographically based lansdslide hazard modelling to the analysis of the spatial
distribution and ecology of kauri (Agathis Australis) Landscape ecology 21: 63 - 76.
20. Verburg, P.H., Kok, K., Pontius, R.G., Veldkamp, A., 2006. Modeling Land-Use and
Cover-Change. In: Land-Use and Land-Cover Change. Local Processes and Global
Impacts. (Eds: Lambin, E.F. and Geist H.) Springer IGBP Series. p.118 – 135.
21. Reid., R.S., Tomich, T.P., Xu, J., Geist, H., Mather, A., DeFries, R.S., Liu, J., Alves.,
D., Agbola, B., Lambin, E.F., Chabbra, A., Veldkamp, A., Kok, K., van Noordwijk, M.,
Palm, C., Verburg, P.H., 2006. In: Land-Use and Land-Cover Change. Local
Processes and Global Impacts. (Eds: Lambin, E.F. and Geist H.) Springer IGBP
Series. p. 157-171.
22. Lambin, E.F., Veldkamp A., et al. (LUCC Steering Committee), 2006. Conclusions,
Key findings of the LUCC project. In: Land-Use and Land-Cover Change. Local
Processes and Global Impacts. (Eds: Lambin, E.F. and Geist H.) Springer IGBP
Series. 174-176.
23. Schoorl, J.M. and A. Veldkamp, 2006. Multi-Scale Soil-Landscape Process
Modeling. Pages 417 – 435, Ed. Sabine Grunwald, In: Environmental
Soil-Landscape Modeling: Geographic Information Technologies and Pedometrics.
CRC press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton. FL. 488pp.
24. Verburg Peter H., Mark D.A. Rounsevell and A. Veldkamp, 2006. Scenario based
studies of future land use in Europe, (Editorial). Agriculture Ecosystems and
Environment 114: 1-6
25. Verburg, P.H., Schulp, C.J.E., Witte, N., Veldkamp, A., 2006. Downscaling of land
use scenarios to assess the dynamcis of European landscapes. Agriculture
Ecosystems and Environment. 114: 39-56.
26. Heuvelink, G.B.M., Schoorl, J.M., Veldkamp A., Pennock, D. J., 2006. Space-time
Kalman filtering of soil redistribution. Geoderma 133: 124-137.
27. Sonneveld, M.P.W., Schoorl, J.M., Veldkamp, A., 2006. Evaluating The Fate Of
Phosphorus In Apparent Homogeneous Landscapes Using a High-Resolution DEM.
Geoderma 133: 20-31.
28. Pennock D.J., and A. Veldkamp 2006. Editorial: Advances in landscape-scale soil
research. Geoderma 133: 1-6
29. Temme, A., Schoorl, J.M, Veldkamp, A., , 2006. 'An algorithm to deal with
depressions in dynamic landscape evolution models' Computers & Geosciences . 32:
452 – 461
30. Schoorl, J.M., Claessens, L., Lopez-Ulloa, M., de Koning, G.H.J., Veldkamp, A.,
(2006) Geomorphological analysis and scenario modelling in the Nboa – Pajan Area,

Manabi Province, Ecuador. Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie , Suppl.-Vol. 145, 105 -
118.
31. Schoorl, J.M., Veldkamp, A., ,Bouma, J., 2007. Deriving land quality indicators from
the landscape units used in soil surveys. In: C. Hall & G. LeClerc (Eds) Making World
Development Work; Scientific Alternatives to Neoclassical Economic Theory /-
Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press, 2007 - ISBN 9780826337337 - p.
251 - 261.
32. Overmars, K.P., Verburg, P.H. and Veldkamp, A., 2007. Comparison and an
inductive approach to specify land suitability in a spatially explicit land use model.
Land Use Policy 24: 584-599.
33. Claessens, L., Schoorl, J.M. and Veldkamp, A. 2007. Modelling the location of
shallow landslides and their effects on landscape dynamics in large watersheds: an
application for Northern New Zealand. Geomorphology. 87: 17-27.
34. Veldkamp A., Buis, E. J.R. Wijbrans, J.R., Olago ,D.O Boshoven E.H., , Marée,
M.,. van den Berg van Saparoea R. M, 2007. Late Cenozoic fluvial dynamics of Tana
river, Kenya, an uplift dominated record. Quaternary Science Reviews 26:
2897-2912.
35. Maddy, D., Demir, T., Bridgland, D.R., Veldkamp, A., Stemerdink, C., Van der
Schriek, T., and Schreve D., 2007. The Pliocene initiation and early Pleistocene
volcanic disruption of the palaeo-Gediz fluvial system, Western Turkey. Quaternary
Science Reviews 26: 2864-2882
36. Kok, K., Verburg, P.H., Veldkamp, A. 2007. Integrated assessment of the land
system: The future of land use. Editorial Special Issue Land Use Policy. 24: 517-520.
37. Lesschen, J.P., J.J. Stoorvogel, E.M.A. Smaling, G.B.M. Heuvelink, A. Veldkamp,
2007. A spatially explicit methodology to quantify soil nutrient balances and their
uncertainties at the national level. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. 78:111-131.
38. Maddy, D., Demir, T., Veldkamp, A., Candy I., Pearson, E., 2007. Reconstructing
Early Pleistocene environments in the Gediz river valley. Anatolian Archeology.
Britisch institute at Ankara research reports Vol. 13: 8-11.
39. Pontius Jr., Robert Gilmore Wieteke Boersma, Jean-Christophe Castella, Keith
Clarke, Ton de Nijs, Charles Dietzel, Zengqiang Duan, Eric Fotsing, Noah Goldstein,
Kasper Kok, Eric Koomen, Christopher D. Lippitt, William McConnell, Bryan
Pijanowski, Snehal Pithadia, Alias Mohd Sood, Sean Sweeney, Tran Ngoc Trung, A.
Tom Veldkamp, and Peter H. Verburg. 2008. Comparing the results for several
models of land change. Annals of Regional Science. 42:11–37.
40. Maddy, D., Demir, T., Bridgland, D.R., Veldkamp, A., Stemerdink, C., Van der
Schriek, T., Westaway, R., 2008. The Early Pleistocene development of the Gediz

River, Western Turkey: an uplift-driven, climate-controlled system? Quaternary
International. 189 (2008) 115–128
41. Buis, E., Veldkamp, A., 2008. Modelling dynamic water redistribution patterns in arid
catchments in the Negev Desert of Israel. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
33: 107-122.
42. Temme, A.J.A.M., Baartman, J.E.M., Botha, G.A., Veldkamp, A., Jongmans, A.G.,
Wallinga, J., 2008. Climate controls on Late Pleistocene landscape evolution of the
Drakensberg footslopes (Okhombe Valley), KwaZulu-Natal, South-Africa.
Geomorphology 99: 280-295 .
43. Hartemink, A.E. Veldkamp, A, Bai, Z., 2008. Land Cover Change and Soil Fertility
Decline in Tropical Regions. Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry 32: 195-213.
44. Schulp, C.J.E., Veldkamp, A., 2008. Long-term landscape – land use interactions
as explaining factor for soil organic matter variability in agricultural landscapes.
Geoderma. 146: 457-465.
45. Giller, K.E., Leeuwis, C., Anderson, J.A., Andriesse, W., Brouwer, A., Frost, P.,
Hebinck, P., Heitkönig, Ittersum, M.K., Koning N., Rubern, R., Slingerland, M., Udo,
H., Veldkamp, A., van de vijver, C., van Wijk, M.T., Windmeijer, P., 2008.
Competing claims of natural resources: What is the role of Science. Ecology and
Society. 13 (2). - p. 1 - 34.
46. Bakker, M.M., and A. Veldkamp, 2008., Modelling land change: the issue of use
and cover in large scale applications. Journal of Land Use Science 3: 203 - 213.
47. Veldkamp, A., Altvorst A.C. van, Eweg, R., Jacobsen, E., Kleef, A. van, Latesteijn,
H. van, Mager, S., Mommaas, H., Smeets, P., Spaans, L., Trijp, H. van, 2009.
Triggering transitions towards sustainable development of the Dutch agricultural
sector: TransForum’s transdisciplinary approach. Agron. Sustain. Dev. 29: 87-96.
48. Veldkamp, A., 2009. Investigating Land Dynamics: future research perspectives.
Journal of Land Use Science. 4:7-15.
49. Buis, E., Veldkamp, A., Boeken, B., van Breemen, N., 2009.Controls on plant
functional types along a precipatation gradient in de Negev Desert of Israel. Journal
of Arid Environments 73: 82 - 90.
50. Verburg, P.H., van de Steeg, J., Veldkamp, A., Willemen, L., 2009. From land cover
change to land function dynamics: a major challenge to improve land
characterization Journal of Environmental Management 90: 1327-1335.
51. Claessens, L., Verburg, P.H., Schoorl, J.M., Veldkamp, A., Geraedts, L., 2009.
Modelling interactions and feedback mechanisms between land use change and
landscape processes Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 129: 157 - 170.

52. Temme, A.J.A.M., Veldkamp A., 2009. Multi-process Late Quaternary landscape
evolution modelling reveals lags in climate response over small spatial scales. Earth
Surface Processes and Landforms (in press)
53. Barreto, L., Ribeiro M.C., Veldkamp, A., Eupen M. van, Kok K., Pontes E.,
2009. Exploring effective conservation networks based on multi-scale planning unit
analysis. A case study of the balsas sub-basin, Maranhao state Brasil. Ecological
Indicators (in press).
54. Claessens, L., and Veldkamp, A. 2009. Evidence of Quaternary uplift of the
Auckland region of the North Island of New Zealand from marine and fluvial terraces”.
Global and Planetary Change (in press)