EV1-314,
ext.
41789
dtrobinson@uwaterloo.ca
Derek joined the Department in 2012 with interests that lie at the center of land use, land management, and the carbon cycle. He uses agent-based modelling as an approach to integrate GIS, ecological, and human decision-making models to evaluate socio-economic contexts and policy scenarios on changes to land use and land cover, ecological function and the provision of ecosystem services, and human well-being.
For more information, visit Derek Robinson's personal website.
Key
Areas
of
Graduate
Supervision
Land-use
and
land-cover
change,
land-management
and
the
carbon
cycle,
land
grabs,
land
policy,
agent-based
modelling
and
geographical
information
systems.
Recent
Courses
Taught
GEOG/PLAN
318:
Spatial
Analysis
GEOG/PLAN
381:
Advanced
Geographic
Information
Systems
GEOG/PLAN
481:
Geographical
Information
Systems
Project
GEMCC
630:
Land
Use
and
the
Carbon
Cycle
(new)
Research
Interests
My
research
involves
building
representations
(i.e.,
models)
of
natural
and
human
systems
to
estimate
the
impacts
of
land
change
scenarios
and
land-use
policies
on
ecosystem
function,
human
well-being,
and
sustainable
livelihoods.
I
typically
use
agent-based
approaches
to
integrate
GIS,
ecological,
and
human
decision-making
models
(with
a
range
of
different
types
of
data)
to
answer
research
questions
at
the
intersection
of
these
fields
of
research
Recent Publications
- 2013. Agrawal, A., Brown, D.G., Rao, G., Riolo, R., Robinson, D.T., and M. Bommarito. Interactions between Organizations and Networks in Common-Pool Resource Governance, Environmental Science & Policy
- 2013. Robinson, D.T., Shipeng, S., Hutchins, M., Riolo, R.L., Brown, D.G., Parker, D.C., Currie, W.S., Filatova, T., and S. Kiger. Effects of land markets and land management on ecosystem function: A framework for modelling exurban land-changes. Environmental Modelling and Software. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.06.016 (available online)
- 2013. Luus, N., Robinson, D.T. and P.J. Deadman. Representing environmental processes in agent-based models of land use and cover change using ecological model approaches. Journal of Land Use Science.
- 2012. Robinson, D.T., Murray-Rust, D., Rieser, V., Melicic, V., and M. Rounsevell. Modelling the impacts of land system dynamics on human well-being: using an agent-based approach to cope with data limitations in Koper, Slovenia. Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems 36(2): 164-176. DOI:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2011.10.002
- 2012. Rounsevell, M., Robinson, D.T. and D. Murray-Rust. From actors to agents in socio-ecological systems models. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 367: 259-269. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0187
- 2012. Robinson, D.T., Land-cover fragmentation and configuration of ownership parcels in an exurban landscape. Urban Ecosystems. 15: 53-69. DOI: 10.1007/s11252-011-0205-4
- 2009. Robinson, D.T. and D.G. Brown, Evaluating the effects of land-use development policies on ex-urban forest cover: an integrated agent-based GIS approach. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 23(9): 1211-1232.
- 2009. Robinson. D.T., Brown, D.G., and W.S. Currie. Modelling carbon storage in highly fragmented and human dominated landscapes: linking land-cover patterns and ecosystem models. Ecological Modelling 220: 1325-1338.
- 2009. Zellner M.L., Page S.E., Rand W., Brown D.G., Robinson D.T., Nassauer J., and B. Low. The emergence of zoning policy games in exurban jurisdictions. Land Use Policy 26: 356-367.