Dr. Pytrik Reidsma

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Dr. Pytrik Reidsma

Address   :   Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen
Tel. :   +31 (0)317 485578
e-mail :  
pytrik.reidsma@wur.nl

Scientist

Research projects


2009 – present  Linking Impact Assessment Instruments to Sustainability Expertise

 

LIAISE was established as part of the European Commission’s FP7 work programme (2009) as a Network of Excellence (NoE) in order to improve the application of Impact Assessments (IA) by both the research and the policy making communities. Its focus is on policy development relating to sustainable development strategies.

 

2010 – present  Knowledge for Climate - Climate Adaptation for Rural Areas

 

The aim of this program is to assess the effects of climate change and adaptive strategies (i.e. sets of concrete adaptation measures) on agriculture, nature and other land-use functions in the rural landscape of the Netherlands.

 

2010 – present  Knowledge for Climate – High-quality Climate Projections

 

This program aims to provide high quality information on regional climate in The Netherlands, now and in the future, for developing national and regional adaptation strategies.

 

2009 - present   Knowledge for Climate - Tailoring information about climate change and its impacts

 

The aim of the project is to tailor information on climate change, its impacts and adaptation options for various users (ranging from researchers to policy makers). We will pre-process and post-process scientific data and provide assistance during use of the data and information, such that it can be directly used. In this project tailoring is not limited to climate data (climate scenarios, observations, model output), but also includes tailoring of data on hydrology, nature/ecology, agriculture and land use scenarios, since these represent the main factors in land use in the Netherlands.

 

2009 - present   Climate changes Spatial Planning - Assessing the adaptive capacity of Agriculture in the Netherlands to the impacts of climate change under different market and policy scenarios

 

Key objective of the project is the development of a methodology to assess climate change impacts on agriculture including adaptation at regional and farm type level in combination with market changes. The developed methodology should be of interest to applied scientists dealing with climate change impacts and adaptation at the regional level. Potential users of the results obtained from applying this methodology will include national and regional policy makers and stakeholders in the region.

 

2007 - 2011       LUPIS: Land use Policies and Sustainable Development in Developing Countries

 

2007 - 2009      SEAMLESS: System for Environmental and Agricultural Modelling: Linking European Science and Society

 

2003 - 2007      PhD project: Adaptation to Climate Change: European Agriculture


Key publications


Reidsma, P., König, H., Feng, S., Bezlepkina, I., Nesheim, I., Bonin, M., Sghaier, M., Purushothaman, S., Sieber, S., Van Ittersum, M.K., Brouwer, F., 2011. Methods and tools for integrated assessment of land use policies on sustainable development in developing countries. Land Use Policy 28: 604-617. Available on-line: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2010.11.009

 

Bezlepkina, I., P. Reidsma, S. Sieber and K. Helming. 2011. Integrated assessment of sustainability of agricultural systems and land use: Methods, tools and applications. Agricultural Systems 104: 105-109. Available on-line: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2010.11.002

 

Reidsma, P., F. Ewert, A. Oude Lansink, R. Leemans. 2010. Adaptation to climate change and climate variability in European agriculture: The importance of farm level responses. European Journal of Agronomy 32: 91-102. Available on-line: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2009.06.003

 

Rufino, M., P. Tittonell, P. Reidsma, S. López-Ridaura, H. Hengsdijk, K.E. Giller, A.  Verhagen, 2009. Network analysis of N flows and food self-sufficiency – a comparative study of crop-livestock systems of the highlands of East and southern Africa. Nutrient Cycling in agro-ecosystems 85: 169-185. Available on-line: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10705-009-9256-9.

 

Reidsma, P. and F. Ewert 2008. Regional Farm Diversity Can Reduce Vulnerability of Food Production to Climate Change. Ecology and Society 13 (1): 38. Available on-line: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss1/art38/

  

Reidsma, P. ,T. Tekelenburg, M. Van den Berg, J.R.M. Alkemade, 2006. Impacts of land-use change on biodiversity: An assessment of agricultural biodiversity in the European Union. Agriculture, Ecosystem and Environment 114: 86-102.

All WUR publications  since 2000     

 

Career

I was born on the 12th of February 1980 in Koudum, the Netherlands, and from 1987 to 1997 I lived in the Frisian village Ysbrechtum. From 1991 to 1997 I followed secondary education, gymnasium, at the Bogerman in Sneek. After a year of traveling and working, I started in 1998 with the study Natural Sciences and Innovation Management at Utrecht University. After obtaining my propaedeuse (1st year degree) I continued my studies in Environmental Sciences at the same university. I finished this study in 2003 with a specialization in Environment and Land Use and an internship at Alterra (Wageningen University and Research Centre, WUR). In 2003 I started my PhD project at the Plant Production Systems Group (WUR) on agricultural adaptation to climate change in Europe. This project was in collaboration with the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) in Bilthoven. Since may 2007 I am involved in projects on integrated assessment of land use and sustainable development as a post-doc.

 

  
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