Doan Nainggolan
Postgraduate student
Telephone number:
+44(0) 113 34
35576
Email address: lec5dn@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 9.125
Biography
Qualifications
Bachelor Degree in Forest Management (Cum Laude/1st class). The State University of Papua (UNIPA), Indonesia.
Master of Natural Resources Studies (Distinction). The University of Queensland, Australia.
MA Ecological Economics (Distinction). The University of Leeds, UK.
Research Interests
My general research interests revolve around assessing and modelling the implications of environmental changes for sustainability across different spatial and temporal scales and in various contexts (e.g. ecosystem services, food security, rural-urban linkage, regional planning). I am in particular interested in developing and/or applying integrated modelling approaches that factor in both spatial/biophysical/ecological and socioeconomic factors as well as human responses to future scenarios. I am very keen on learning about and using various analytical tools/methods such as spatial analysis and modelling (GIS), complexity approach, agent based model, choice experiment (CE)/discrete choice model (DCM), econometrics (mainly for CE and DCM), cost benefit analysis, and input output analysis.
Teaching Interests
I have been involved in providing teaching assistance, tutorial, and demonstrating for various modules including:
SOEE 2165 Climate Change: Society and Human Dimensions
SOEE 2022 Research Design and Practice
SOEE 2231 Environmental Research/Techniques
SOEE 1015 Introduction to Environmental Sustainability
SOEE 5010 Research Methods (MSc. module)
SOEE 5490 Participatory Environment Project/Policy Evaluation (MSc. module)
SOEE 5580 Tools and Techniques for Integrated Ecological Economic Modelling (MSc. module)
Various Fieldworks
Project details
Project title
Evaluating the complexity of competing land use trajectories in semi-arid Mediterranean agro-ecosystems
Supervisors
Prof Mette Termansen, Dr Luuk Fleskens, Prof Klaus Hubacek, and Dr Mark S. Reed
Funding
University of Leeds ORS, DESIRE, and Aarhus University
Start date
October 2007
Project outline
An understanding of land use change and its drivers in semi-arid Mediterranean agro-ecosystems is important for informing ways to facilitate adaptation to future environmental and socioeconomic pressures. Equally important is a better comprehension about the linkages between the characteristics of farmers, farm management and land use especially in the context of managing multifunctional agro-ecosystems. My PhD research aims to investigate the interrelationship between these multiple dimensions of land use change dynamics by coupling insights from both spatial-multi temporal analysis and farmer interviews in semi-arid Mediterranean agro-ecosystem of Torrealvilla catchment. Three specific objectives of the research are: 1) Analysing multi-decadal land use changes and landscape fragmentation and examining the influence of biophysical and socioeconomic drivers on the observed trajectories; 2) Examining the linkages between the characteristics of farmers, farm management, and agricultural land uses and evaluating the implications of farmers’ responses to future scenarios on ecosystem services; 3) Simulating future landscape patterns through a modelling framework that factors in evidence from steps 1 and 2. The anticipated key contributions of my PhD research are 1) Provision of empirical evidence on the complexity of land use change in Mediterranean agro-ecosystem with potentials for feeding into policy making on agro-ecosystem/rural landscape management and ecosystem services; 2) Development of methodological framework for studying land use change complexity in agro-ecosystem setting with applicability beyond the study area.
Publications
Reed, M.S., Arblaster, K., Bullock, C., Burton, R.J.F., Davies, A.L., Holden, J, Hubacek, K., May, R., Mitchley, J., Morris, J., Nainggolan, D., Potter, C., Quinn, C.H., Swales, V., Thorp, S. 2009. Using scenarios to explore UK upland futures. Futures 41: 619-630
Nainggolan D. 2009. Book Reviews on ‘Landscape Analysis and Visualisation: Spatial models for natural resource management and planning; edited by C. Pettit, W. Cartwright, I. Bishop, K. Lowell, D. Pullar, and D. Duncan; Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2008; ISBN: 978-3-540-69167-9; 614 pages’. Journal of Land Degradation and Development.
De Noronha Vaz, E. M., Nainggolan, D., Nijkamp, P, & Painho, M. 2010. Crossroads of Tourism – A Complex Spatial Systems Analysis of Tourism and Urban Sprawl in the Algarve. To be included in a forthcoming Special Issue of the International Journal of Sustainable Development on ‘Analysis and Policy for Sustainable Cultural Tourism’.
Reed MS, Buenemann, M, Atlhopheng J, Akhtar-Schuster M, Bachmann F, Bastin G, Bigas H, Chanda R, Dougill AJ, Essahli W, Evely AC, Fleskens L, Geeson N, Glass JH, Hessel R, Holden J, Ioris A, Kruger B, Liniger HP, Mphinyane W, Nainggolan D, Perkins J, Raymond CM, Ritsema CJ, Schwilch G, Sebego R, Seely M, Stringer LC, Thomas R, Twomlow S, Verzandvoort S (2011) Cross-scale monitoring and assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management: a methodological framework for knowledge management. Land Degradation & Development.
Nainggolan, D., Termansen, M., Reed, M.S., Ceborello, E. D. & Hubacek, K. (Not yet published – accessible online). Farmer Typology, Future Scenarios and the Implications for Ecosystem Service Provision: A case study from South-Eastern Spain. Regional Environmental Change. (DOI) 10.1007/s10113-011-0261-6.
Fleskens, L., Nainggolan, D., Termansen, M., Hubacek, K., & Reed, M.S. (Not yet published – accessible online). Regional consequences of the way land users respond to future water availability in Murcia, Spain. Regional Environmental Change. (DOI) 10.1007/s10113-012-0283-8.
Nainggolan, D., de Vente, J., Boix-Fayos, C., Termansen, M., Hubacek, K., Reed, M.S. (submitted – under review). Afforestation, land abandonment and agricultural intensification: Competing trajectories in semi-arid Mediterranean agro-ecosystems.