Luuk Fleskens
Biographic Data
| ID | 208563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luuk Fleskens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luuk |
| FAMILY NAME | Fleskens |
| SIGNATURE | FLESKENS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6843-0910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Spatial Cost–Benefit Analysis of Conservation Agriculture Implementation in Siliana Governorate, Northeast of Tunisia
An investigation was made into the efficiency of conservation agriculture implementation in Siliana governorate, northeast Tunisia, through a spatial cost–benefit analysis using the Desertification Mitigation Cost‐Effectiveness modeling approach (DESMICE). We defined the applicability limitations of conservation agriculture using biophysical and economic factors. Average incremental benefit was calculated based on observations of farmers who adop…
Cost–Benefit Analysis of Large‐Scale Land Restoration in the Chinese Loess Plateau
The Grain to Green Project (GGP), China's largest land restoration initiative, has profoundly altered land use and cover in the Loess Plateau, leading to significant enhancements in ecosystem services. This study examines the dynamics of these services and their values during and after GGP implementation, assessing the project's net economic benefits to inform future land restoration policies. We integrated observed land use changes and employed …
Exploring the relationship between land abandonment and landscape identity in traditional cultural landscapes
Factors affecting farmers’ decision to participate in Campaign-Based Watershed Management program in Boset District, Ethiopia
Enhancing traditional floodwater governance for inclusive and resilient flood-based livelihood systems in Tana river floodplains, Kenya
This paper analyses the effectiveness of traditional water governance in Flood-based Livelihood Systems (FBLS), which harness floods that could have caused environmental degradation. Ostrom’s Governing the Commons Principles, widely recognized for the effective management of shared resources, is used as a framework. The paper draws from discussions with 300 farmers and pastoralists in Tana River FBLS, the oldest traditional system in Kenya. The t…
Compensation for displacement caused by dam building
Compensation of people affected by dam building can be unfair, leading to protests and delays. Several international guidelines exist for compensation procedures that aim at equitable and reasonable compensation. Different criteria and procedures have been proposed for valuation of lost assets and income. We investigated five dam-building projects in Thailand, and evaluated the compensation process and outcomes with a conceptual framework focused…
Using Agent-Based Modelling to Assess Scenarios for Enhanced Soil and Water Conservation in the Boset District, Ethiopia
The sustainability of the ongoing Campaign-Based Watershed Management (CBWM) program in Ethiopia is questionable due to poor planning and implementation of the Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) structures. This study uses an empirically based, agent-based model to explore the e ect of six scenarios on both area of land covered by, as well as the quality of SWC structures in three Kebeles (villages) of Boset District. The analysis revealed that in…
Study on evaluation of regional cultivated land quality based on resource-asset-capital attributes and its spatial mechanism
Valuing ecosystem services
Despite formal recognition of the need to incorporate multiple values in the assessment of ecosystem services, the operationalisation of a consistent integration of different types of values is still limited. This article assesses stakeholders’ perception and monetary (economic) values of ecosystem services delivered by the Kilombero wetland in Tanzania. A mixed-methods approach was employed, which included deliberative elements (diverse stakehol…
Allying knowledge integration and co-production for knowledge legitimacy and usability
Environmental policies that aim to enhance nature conservation, biodiversity, and well-being of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC) rely on knowledge integration and co-production processes that include both science and Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) systems. While these processes are expected to safeguard the diversity of knowledge systems, uneven power relations among participants often prevent them from achieving this which c…
Sustainable Land Management (SLM) in Practice in the Kagera Basin
Review of: Sustainable Land Management (SLM) in Practice in the Kagera Basin: Lessons Learned for Scaling Up at Landscape Level. By FAO Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2017
Soil quality – A critical review
Sampling and analysis or visual examination of soil to assess its status and use potential is widely practiced from plot to national scales. However, the choice of relevant soil attributes and interpretation of measurements are not straightforward, because of the complexity and site-specificity of soils, legacy effects of previous land use, and trade-offs between ecosystem services. Here we review soil quality and related concepts, in terms of de…
Environmental Assessment Techniques
Environmental assessment techniques comprise a range of analytical and practical tools of varying level of complexity to assess, monitor, or interpret environmental changes: expert judgment, checklist matrices, environmental risk assessment, mapping and spatial analysis, impact prediction, impact evaluation, remote sensing, natural resource accounting, participatory techniques, and crowdsourcing. Such techniques may rely on a combination of judgm…
An applied methodology for stakeholder identification in transdisciplinary research
In this paper we present a novel methodology for identifying stakeholders for the purpose of engaging with them in transdisciplinary, sustainability research projects. In transdisciplinary research, it is important to identify a range of stakeholders prior to the problem-focussed stages of research. Early engagement with diverse stakeholders creates space for them to influence the research process, including problem definition, from the start. Ho…
The future of olive groves on sloping land and ex-ante assessment of cross compliance for erosion control
A Behavioral Change Perspective of Maroon Soil Fertility Management in Traditional Shifting Cultivation in Suriname
In Suriname, the Maroons have practiced shifting cultivation for generations, but now the increasing influence of modern society is causing a trend of decreasing fallow periods with potentially adverse effects for the vulnerable tropical soils. Adoption of appropriate soil fertility management (SFM) practices is currently slow. Combining methods from cultural ecology and environmental psychology, this study identifies two groups with divergent be…
A conceptual framework for the assessment of multiple functions of agro-ecosystems
A conceptual framework for the assessment of multiple functions of agro-ecosystems
An applied methodology for stakeholder identification in transdisciplinary research
In this paper we present a novel methodology for identifying stakeholders for the purpose of engaging with them in transdisciplinary, sustainability research projects. In transdisciplinary research, it is important to identify a range of stakeholders prior to the problem-focussed stages of research. Early engagement with diverse stakeholders creates space for them to influence the research process, including problem definition, from the start. Ho…
Allying knowledge integration and co-production for knowledge legitimacy and usability
Environmental policies that aim to enhance nature conservation, biodiversity, and well-being of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC) rely on knowledge integration and co-production processes that include both science and Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) systems. While these processes are expected to safeguard the diversity of knowledge systems, uneven power relations among participants often prevent them from achieving this which c…
The future of olive groves on sloping land and ex-ante assessment of cross compliance for erosion control
Exploring the relationship between land abandonment and landscape identity in traditional cultural landscapes
A Behavioral Change Perspective of Maroon Soil Fertility Management in Traditional Shifting Cultivation in Suriname
In Suriname, the Maroons have practiced shifting cultivation for generations, but now the increasing influence of modern society is causing a trend of decreasing fallow periods with potentially adverse effects for the vulnerable tropical soils. Adoption of appropriate soil fertility management (SFM) practices is currently slow. Combining methods from cultural ecology and environmental psychology, this study identifies two groups with divergent be…
A conceptual framework for the assessment of multiple functions of agro-ecosystems
The future of olive groves on sloping land and ex-ante assessment of cross compliance for erosion control
A Behavioral Change Perspective of Maroon Soil Fertility Management in Traditional Shifting Cultivation in Suriname
In Suriname, the Maroons have practiced shifting cultivation for generations, but now the increasing influence of modern society is causing a trend of decreasing fallow periods with potentially adverse effects for the vulnerable tropical soils. Adoption of appropriate soil fertility management (SFM) practices is currently slow. Combining methods from cultural ecology and environmental psychology, this study identifies two groups with divergent be…
An applied methodology for stakeholder identification in transdisciplinary research
In this paper we present a novel methodology for identifying stakeholders for the purpose of engaging with them in transdisciplinary, sustainability research projects. In transdisciplinary research, it is important to identify a range of stakeholders prior to the problem-focussed stages of research. Early engagement with diverse stakeholders creates space for them to influence the research process, including problem definition, from the start. Ho…
Environmental Assessment Techniques
Environmental assessment techniques comprise a range of analytical and practical tools of varying level of complexity to assess, monitor, or interpret environmental changes: expert judgment, checklist matrices, environmental risk assessment, mapping and spatial analysis, impact prediction, impact evaluation, remote sensing, natural resource accounting, participatory techniques, and crowdsourcing. Such techniques may rely on a combination of judgm…
Soil quality – A critical review
Sampling and analysis or visual examination of soil to assess its status and use potential is widely practiced from plot to national scales. However, the choice of relevant soil attributes and interpretation of measurements are not straightforward, because of the complexity and site-specificity of soils, legacy effects of previous land use, and trade-offs between ecosystem services. Here we review soil quality and related concepts, in terms of de…
Sustainable Land Management (SLM) in Practice in the Kagera Basin
Review of: Sustainable Land Management (SLM) in Practice in the Kagera Basin: Lessons Learned for Scaling Up at Landscape Level. By FAO Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2017
Study on evaluation of regional cultivated land quality based on resource-asset-capital attributes and its spatial mechanism
Valuing ecosystem services
Despite formal recognition of the need to incorporate multiple values in the assessment of ecosystem services, the operationalisation of a consistent integration of different types of values is still limited. This article assesses stakeholders’ perception and monetary (economic) values of ecosystem services delivered by the Kilombero wetland in Tanzania. A mixed-methods approach was employed, which included deliberative elements (diverse stakehol…
Allying knowledge integration and co-production for knowledge legitimacy and usability
Environmental policies that aim to enhance nature conservation, biodiversity, and well-being of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC) rely on knowledge integration and co-production processes that include both science and Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) systems. While these processes are expected to safeguard the diversity of knowledge systems, uneven power relations among participants often prevent them from achieving this which c…
Using Agent-Based Modelling to Assess Scenarios for Enhanced Soil and Water Conservation in the Boset District, Ethiopia
The sustainability of the ongoing Campaign-Based Watershed Management (CBWM) program in Ethiopia is questionable due to poor planning and implementation of the Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) structures. This study uses an empirically based, agent-based model to explore the e ect of six scenarios on both area of land covered by, as well as the quality of SWC structures in three Kebeles (villages) of Boset District. The analysis revealed that in…
Enhancing traditional floodwater governance for inclusive and resilient flood-based livelihood systems in Tana river floodplains, Kenya
This paper analyses the effectiveness of traditional water governance in Flood-based Livelihood Systems (FBLS), which harness floods that could have caused environmental degradation. Ostrom’s Governing the Commons Principles, widely recognized for the effective management of shared resources, is used as a framework. The paper draws from discussions with 300 farmers and pastoralists in Tana River FBLS, the oldest traditional system in Kenya. The t…
Compensation for displacement caused by dam building
Compensation of people affected by dam building can be unfair, leading to protests and delays. Several international guidelines exist for compensation procedures that aim at equitable and reasonable compensation. Different criteria and procedures have been proposed for valuation of lost assets and income. We investigated five dam-building projects in Thailand, and evaluated the compensation process and outcomes with a conceptual framework focused…
Factors affecting farmers’ decision to participate in Campaign-Based Watershed Management program in Boset District, Ethiopia
Spatial Cost–Benefit Analysis of Conservation Agriculture Implementation in Siliana Governorate, Northeast of Tunisia
An investigation was made into the efficiency of conservation agriculture implementation in Siliana governorate, northeast Tunisia, through a spatial cost–benefit analysis using the Desertification Mitigation Cost‐Effectiveness modeling approach (DESMICE). We defined the applicability limitations of conservation agriculture using biophysical and economic factors. Average incremental benefit was calculated based on observations of farmers who adop…
Cost–Benefit Analysis of Large‐Scale Land Restoration in the Chinese Loess Plateau
The Grain to Green Project (GGP), China's largest land restoration initiative, has profoundly altered land use and cover in the Loess Plateau, leading to significant enhancements in ecosystem services. This study examines the dynamics of these services and their values during and after GGP implementation, assessing the project's net economic benefits to inform future land restoration policies. We integrated observed land use changes and employed …
Exploring the relationship between land abandonment and landscape identity in traditional cultural landscapes
Geography (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Environmental resource management (9 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Environmental Science (8 works) · Environmental planning (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 works)