At the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Presentations
November 22, 2016. IVM colloquim
Nature and Human Interactions: Uzbekistan. Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) colloquium
Abstract.
Uzbekistan has unique physical geographical features being located in the heart of Eurasian continent.It is an example of effect of interrelations of global,
regional and local natural processes. Nature and Human interactions in such vulnerable arid zone as Uzbekistan may result in different way. In the
globalized world we live in today, there is no disaster that is just local in nature, and the consequences of any environmental catastrophe echo all over
the world. Uzbekistan's environmental challenges are epitomized by the disaster of the Aral Sea, which has had a severe impact on the surrounding areas,
and put over 2.5 million people at risk. The Aral Sea, fed by rivers now used for irrigation, has shrunk to a fraction of its size in the 1960s. From 1960 to
1992, the sea's area was halved and its volume quartered. Today it contains just 30% of its former volume. Its shoreline has receded by 120 kilometers and
the sea level has declined more than 16 meters. By 2018, the once 16.1 meters deep sea may become a desert. Is Aral sea disaster natural or human induced
ne? Is it important to save balance of natural resources use in arid zone? Many learned lessons show that ignoring and misunderstanding of Nature and its
basic principles may threaten future sustainable development.
December 1. 2016 EURECA Seminar
Challenges and New trends of Urban Transformation in Uzbekistan. EUREKA Seminar,
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Abstract
Uzbekistan is located in the heart of Eurasian continent and it is a country with unique natural and economical features. Review in brief of changes in Economy during past 25 years (after dissolution of the USSR) and Urbanization from historical perspective gives an understanding of driving forces for development. This country is facing twin challenges: scarcity of land and water resources and extra labor forces. Some government programs like “Housing Integrated Rural Development Program” is aiming the goals to eliminate rural-urban migration and bring urban life standards into rural areas. At the same time this country lacks well defined concept of regional and urban planning. With the purpose to implement spatial component and find the ways for predicting urban sprawl Urban Growth Modeling is tested in the most populous region of Uzbekistan. This model and results are discussed in brief. Is the transition from agriculture to urban land use may be predicted? Is this model suitable for places like tested one?
Classes
TU Delft. The program comprises main issues on GeoData, Spatial Analysis&Visualization.
STREEM Spatial Economics, Transport Economics & Environmental Economics Master's program.
Geographical Information Systems (as part of STREEM program).
Course objective
For economists, the spatial-economic market model of Von Thünen (1780-1850) was a major breakthrough in their spatial thinking. During this
course, we will see how this spatial thinking has evolved from Von Thünen's time to the world of today.
The aim of this course in Geographical Information Science is to make students understand the importance of space and distance as key factors
in applied research, in particular in the fields of regional, urban,transport and environmental economics. The students will be introduced
into the theoretical and methodological issues of GIScience and GISystems and they will be trained in how GIS can assist and extend
research. At the end of the course students:
- can carry out a spatial-economic analysis in which they apply relevant theories and concepts as discussed during the lectures
- know how to use GIS software and tools in their analysis
- will be able to explain what GIS is and how it can be used in business processes, in government policy planning and in scientific an
Tinbergen Institute and EURECA Seminars
June 22, 2017 Dr. Harry Garretsen (Universiteit Groningen, 'International Economics & Business')
‘The Relevance of Personality Traits for EconomicGeography: Making Space for Psychological Factors’.
March 16, 2017 Dr. Dave Donaldson (Stanford University, United States)
‘Who’s Getting Globalized? The Size and Implications of Intra-national Trade Costs’.
March 2, 2017. Dr.Miquel-Angel Garcia-Lopez (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and Institutd’Economia de Barcelona)
‘All roads lead to Rome ... and to sprawl? Evidence from European cities’.
February 23, 2017 Dr. Arthur van Benthem (University of Pennsylvania)
‘Sufficient Statistics for Imperfect Externality-Correcting Policies’.
February 16, 2017 Prof Dr. Rainald Borck (University of Potsdam, CESifo and DIW Berlin; Germany)
‘Pollution and city size: can cities be too small?’
February 9, 2017 Hans Koster
‘Amenities and the Social Structure of Cities’ and
Martin Adler.‘Road congestion and public transit’
January 19, 2017 Dr.Corrado Di Maria (School of Economics, University of East Anglia, UK)
“A Look Upstream: Market Restructuring, Risk, Procurement Contracts and Efficiency”
January 12, 2017 Sierdjan Koster, Aleid E. Brouwer and Eveline S. van Leeuwen
Diversity as the key to success? Sector diversity and its effect on employment dynamics in urban and rural municipalities in the Netherlands;
Erik Ansink, JetskeBouma, Dominic Hauck, Mark Koetse and Daan van Soest Crowd-funding a public good or two
December 19, 2016 Berber Kramer (IFPRI) Liquid Milk:
Effects of Cash Constraints on Collective Marketing in the Kenyan Dairy Sector
December 15, 2016 Antoine Dechezleprêtre (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics)
“Knowledge spillovers from clean and dirty technologies”
November 18,2016 Jonathan Dullemans (UNIGIS MSc thesis)
“The contribution of geographic components in understanding neighbourhood participation”.
prof. Kay Axhausen (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Departement Bau, Umwelt und Geomatik
Accessibility and Productivity in Switzerland
October 10th, Billy Jack (Professor of Economics at Georgetown University)
The Long-Run Poverty and Gender Impacts of Digital Financial Inclusion
October 6, 2016 Nicolas González-Pampillón and Jordi Jofre-Monseny
Are high minority neighborhoods dynamically stable?
During the first decade of the XXI century, Spain exhibited a substantial increase in the foreign-born population in a short time frame. Behind the broad
picture, there are huge disparities in terms of immigrant population within cities. Migrants tend to concentrate in certain neighborhoods while avoiding
others. In this context, this paper attempts to disentangle among two of the primary drivers of segregation: neighborhood fundamentals
(i.e. characteristics that are inherently attractive to migrants) and social interaction in housing demand (i.e. negative preferences of natives
towards living in high minority share neighborhoods). Our strategy is based on taking advantage of two different periods: the immigration boom
(2000-2009); and a period in where the immigration influx stopped (2010-2015). If a neighborhood tipped during the immigration boom, we also should
expect an increasing minority share in the following period and thus, the social interaction effect hypothesis is playing the major role. Preliminary
findings do not support this latter hypothesis, and then, high minority neighborhoods seem to be dynamically stable.
September 23, 2016.
Do Cities Make us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier?
Edward Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard Universitygave a thought-
provoking presentation emphasising the potential that urbanisation has for economic growth and enhanced well-being of less developed countries.
Jens Südekum Professor für International Economics, Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet
Duesseldorf presented novel empirical research trying to unravel the mechanisms of matching between workers and firms that give rise to a wage
premium earned in urban areas. These positive aspects of urbanisation notwithstanding, there are obvious downsides to urbanisation, such as
congestion, crime and pollution.
Bas ter Weel deputy director at the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis in The Hague, the Netherlands. He is also a
professor of economics at Maastricht University, focused on the implications of urbanisation for the (local) labour market with a special emphasis on
job market polarisation.
The final presentation by Jeroen Slot hoofd van Bureau Onderzoek en Statistiek (O+S) bij de gemeente Amsterdam Bron:focused on the challenges
that the city of Amsterdam is facing in coping with the recent attraction to the city, which has obvious downsides associated with it too.
September 15, 2016. Prof. Lord Nicholas Stern, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (LSE)
IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government (LSE) President of the British Academy London School of Economics and Political Science.
Climate, Growth and Global Agenda. Presented by The Development Economics and
Spatial Economics research groups (Tinbergen Institute. What are challenges of this century?This talk is about the logic, urgency and promise of
tackling climate change, the subtitle of Stern’s 2015 book, “Why are we waiting?”. It demonstrates that we know what needs to be done and how
to embark on a new path. It will be very attractive, including cities where we can work, breathe and be productive. It involves strong, clear and
credible policies that chart a course of direction and give the confidence necessary for investment and innovation. The task now is implementation.
Time is of the essence; the next 20 years will be critical.
FIELD TRIPS
gSmart Excursions n Western Netherland
October 1, 2016
Dr. Mark Bokhorst shows "something of the geography of this strange country called the Netherlands. Water management is in our blood as 55% of the
country has an artifical ground water table since Medieval times and - mainly as a result of that - nowadays 35% is situated below sea level (up to -6 meters).
Our actual landscape is full of relics of more than 1000 years of water management and people that looked for ways to be safe from flooding and how to
live in this swamp. I like to show you some things of this recent and old history in our landscape, with modern and old solutions to live here and how we
use our landscape. Apart from that I like address the future challenges we have".
Route: Uilenstede (0) and the following locations (numbers refer to the attached map):
1. Fortification of the old city of Naarden: the use of water to defend (drive through)
2. Ice pushed ridges and their basins in 't Gooi region (Central Netherlands) (drive through)
3. The Flevopolders in the dammed former Zuiderzee (Southern Sea): cities Almere and Lelystad built on the sea floor since the 1950's (drive through).
4. Former islands in the Zuiderzee that are now located in these polders (STOP POINT)
5. The dike Lelystrad-Enkhuizen: 30 km through the water of the IJsselmeer (former Zuiderzee) (drive through)
6. LUNCH in the old herring fishing town of Enkhuizen at the former Southern Sea (STOP POINT)
7. Visit a 'wheel' near Hoorn: relic of a broken dike and resulting flood in the past (SHORT STOP)
8. The Beemster: former peat lake in Noord-Holland, pumped dry in 1612. Now UNESCO heritage (drive through)
9. A 'molengang' (three wind mills in a row) and visit one mill: how 4 m deep large lakes were pumped in the 17th century. (STOP POINT)
10. The whale fishing (!) town of De Rijp, now in the middle of the land between former lakes (STOP POINT)
11. Along Alkmaardermeer (a not-pumped lake) (drive along)
12. When time is left and we still like it: to the dunes and the coast near Castricum. (STOP POINT)
13. Along the Noordzeekanaal (North Sea Canal) and Amsterdam harbour area (drive along) or directly back to Uilenstede.
Trip to GEONOVUM, Amersfort. GEONOVUM’s mission is providing better performance with geoinformation,
making it accessible to the public, develop standards that are required.
October 16-18, 2016 Trip to the University of Salzburg , Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS
February 9, 2017 Trip to Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (KADASTER)
February 14, 2017 Trip to the ICT Twente University
April 15, 2017 Agriculture of the Netherlands. The Famous Dutch Flower Fields
May 26, 2017 "Farming in theNetherlands. Delta Works"
May 30, 2017 Excursion with SPINLAB of the Facultyof Economy and Business Administration to
the De Wetstraat 1 IJmuidenarea to the main office of Rijkswaterstaat (RWS)
