Background

Dr. Ir. Luc Boerboom joined ITC in 1999. He holds an MSc degree in Tropical Land and Water Management (1992) from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, with specialization in soil and water conservation modeling. He worked a year (1993) as a research assistant with the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR), which was one of the Centers of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). There he worked in a program looking at the implication of environmental concerns due to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in 1992 for national agricultural research in developing countries. He holds a PhD degree in agronomy from the University of Georgia in the USA (1999), where he was a research assistant in the USAID funded SANREM - CRSP (Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management - Collaborative Research Support Program) project. He developed a mathematical programming model to assess optimality of multiple farms against watershed optimality, using methods from quantitative anthropology to distinguish groups of decision makers.

He has over 15 years of theoretical and practical experience in multiple criteria decision making, spatial planning and decision support systems, information systems development. Fields of application have been in regional agricultural planning, integrated watershed management, climate change and forest management, urban and transport planning and decision making, disaster management, and terrorism threat evaluation. Also, he studies institutionalization of spatial planning and decision support systems.

Luc is assistant professor in Planning and Decision making Concepts and Methods, in the Department of Urban Regional Planning and Geo-information Management, in which he works the Knowledge Field "Planning and Decision Making Concepts and Methods". He was member of the departmental management team holding the portfolio research from September 2004 until July 2007.

Activities in research

• Project coordinator and research assistant supervisor in project “Transnational Forestry Management Strategies in Response to Regional Climate Change Impacts - ForeStClim” (2008-2012) funded by the European Regional Development Fund INTERREG IVB North West Europe. It is a collaboration of 16 management and research institutes in the Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands lead by the Forschungsanstalt für Waldökologie und Forstwirtschaft of the Landesforsten Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.
• PhD student supervisor in project “Using spatial information infrastructure in urban governance networks: reducing urban deprivations in Indian cities?” (2008-2012) funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific research (NWO) under its WOTRO Science for Global Development program. It is a collaboration between AMIDSt (University of Amsterdam), ITC, School of Planning and Architecture (New Delhi), and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mombai).
• PhD student supervisor in project “Enhancing urban sustainability: Pre-brownfield steering in a rapidly transitional urban context” as part of joint research program ‘Sustainable Urbanisation’ with Utrecht University funded by the China Scholarship Council (2008-2012).
• Sabbatical research on consequences of institutionalization and drift of multi-criteria decision making for Malaysian spatial planning (2007-2008).
• PhD student supervisor in research project between ITC and the Iranian Ministry of Agriculture on Development of Spatial Collaborative Planning Support Systems, supporting food security and agricultural development in Iran (2003-2009).
• Developer of spatial multi-criteria evaluation software in research project on Development of a Spatial Monitoring and Certification System supporting Sustainable Management of production Forest in Indonesia (2003-2007). This project is a joint program between ITC, and Tropenbos International from Holland and Watershed Management Technology Center, Indonesian Eco-labeling, Bogor Institute of Technology, CIFOR, and Ministry of Forestry in Indonesia.

Current PhD projects

• B. Farhadi. Development of model supporting policy formulation for land and water resource development, the case of Borkhar plain in Islamic republic of Iran. (2005-2009)
• F. Sargordi. Development of model supporting goal formulation for land and water resource development, the case of Borkhar plain in Islamic republic of Iran. (2005-2009)
• F. Cheng, Enhancing urban sustainability: Pre-brownfield steering in a rapidly transitional urban context. (2008-2012)
• P. Kolte, Implications for information infrastructure of variability of decision structure and judgment. (2008-2012)

Current courses

• Distance course “Spatial Decision Support Systems” (http://www.itc.nl/education/courses.aspx?prog=7)
• Spatial planning support systems and scenario development (http://www.itc.nl/education/courses/modules/M08-PGM-100.pdf)
• Scenario Analysis and Collaborative Decision Support (http://www.itc.nl/education/courses/modules/M08-PGM-101.pdf)
• Systems analysis for NRM (http://www.itc.nl/education/courses/modules/M08-NRM-104.pdf)
• Urban Planning and Management II - Developing Spatial Interventions in Urban Planning and Management  (http://www.itc.nl/education/courses/modules/U08-UPM-104.pdf)
• Scenarios and modeling for NRM (http://www.itc.nl/education/courses/modules/M08-NRM-111.pdf)

Consulting activities

• Refresher course (2 weeks) on “Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Urban Development in Eastern Africa” to be held in Uganda (Sept. 2008).
• Expanding Expertise Network for generating and sharing knowledge related to Spatial Planning and Decision Support (ENSPADS) http://www.itc.nl/external/enspads/ (2004-2005) funded by the Asean-EU University Network Programme (AUNP)
• Tailor-made course “Planning support systems: scenario development and analysis” commissioned by Malaysian Federal Department of Town and Country planning. (2005)
• Establish multi-criteria evaluation methodology in for the Klang Valley Integrated Public Transport System And Land Use Development Plan (Kajian Pelan Integrasi Pembangunan Sistem Pengangkutan Awam Dan Gunatanah Lembah Klang), commissioned by the Malaysian Prime Minister’s office (2003-2004)
• The Pantanal-Taquari project: Decision Support System for catchment-based river management (2003-2004) funded by the Dutch Partners for Water Program.
• Short course “Geoinformation for Natural Disaster Management” at the Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, RESTEC, in Tokyo.
• Tailor-made course “Problem analysis for versatile use of spatial databases” commissioned by Malaysian Ministry of Federal Territories. (2003)
• Tailor-made course “Spatial Multicriteria Analisis for Planning and Decision Support” commissioned by Malaysian Federal Department of Town and Country planning. (2002)

Publications

ISI Journal Articles

Cheng, F., Boerboom, L.G.J., Geertman, S. and Hooimeijer, P. (2012) Changing Spatial Concentration of Sectoral Employment in China’s Pearl River Delta 1990 - 2005. In: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie TESG = Journal of economic and social geography,  (2012)IN PRESS17 p. Full text | Full text

Nekhay, O., Arriaza, M. and Boerboom, L.G.J. (2009) Evaluation of soil erosion risk using analytic network process and GIS : a case study from Spanish mountain olive plantations. In: Journal of environmental management, 90(2009)10, pp. 3091-3104. Full text | Full text

Other Refereed Journal Articles

Boerboom, L.G.J. and OskayAlan, O. (2013) A distributed open source web - application for spatial multi - criteria evaluation for decision support systems infrastructure. In: International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making, 3(2013)2/3, pp. 114-128.

Smidt, E., van der Molen, I., Boerboom, L.G.J. and ter Horst, R. (2013) De veranderende rol van water in het Israëlisch - Palestijnse conflict. In: Internationale Spectator, 67(2013)3, pp. 42-47. Full text

Nekhay, O.M., Arriaza, M. and Boerboom, L.G.J. (2007) Soil erosion risk evaluation based on expert knowledge and GIS technology : a case study from the Spanish mountainous olive plantations, Montoro, Andalusia region. In: Soil science Kiev - Dnipropetrovsk : Ukraine, 8(2007)1-2, pp. 77-93. Full text

Book Chapters

Junfeng, J. and Boerboom, L.G.J. (2006) Transition rule elicitation methods for urban cellular automata models. In: Innovations in design and decision support systems in architecture and urban planning / ed. by J.P. van Leeuwen and H.J.P. Timmermans. Berlin : Springer, 2006. ISBN 978-1-4020-5059-6. pp. 53-68. Full text

PhD Theses

Boerboom, L.G.J. (1999) A soft systems approach to implicit water resources conflicts in a Philippine watershed : stakeholder analysis and development of a group decision support system for land use optimization. Athens, University of Georgia, 1999.

Conference Proceedings (full papers)

Cheng, F., Geertman, S., Hooimeijer, P. and Boerboom, L.G.J. (2011) Economic restructuring in the Pearl river delta : analyses of sectoral and spatial changes. In: 12th international conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management : CUPUM, 5-8 July 2011, Alberta, Canada : proceedings CD-ROM. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], 2011, 17 p. Full text

Boerboom, L.G.J. (2009) Avoid lock - in for development of online spatial multi - criteria evaluation software. In: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, 16-18 June 2009, Hong Kong, CUPUM 20th anniversary / ed. by A.G.O. Yeh and F. Zhang. Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2009. ISBN 978-962-7589-0. 16 p. Full text

Kolte, P., Boerboom, L.G.J., Miscione, G. and Georgiadou, P.Y. (2009) A proposal for studying decision - making and spatial data infrastructures in the public sector in India. In: Proceedings of the GSDI 11 World Conference : Spatial data infrastructure convergence : building SDI bridges to address global challenges, June 15-19, 2009, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 13 p. Full text | Full text

Martínez, J.A., Sliuzas, R.V. and Boerboom, L.G.J. (2007) Modelling slum improvement dynamics. In: CUPUM 07 : proceedings of the 10th international conference on computers in urban planning and urban management, 11-13 July, 2007 Iguasso Falls, Brazil. ISBN 978-85-85205-77-5. 16 p. Full text

Sharifi, M.A., Boerboom, L.G.J. and ... [et al.] (2006) Spatial multiple criteria decision analysis in integrated planning for public transport and land use development study in Klang valley, Malaysia. In: Proceedings of Vol. XXXVI, part 2. Technical Commission II, ISPRS Vienna 2006 symposium, 12-16 July 2006, Austria / ed. by W. Kainz and A. Pucher. Vienna : ISPRS, 2006. pp. 125-130 This paper has been published earlier: In: Proceedings of the ISPRS midterm conference, Commission VI, WG VI/4, Theory and concepts of spatio-temporal data chandelling and information, Vienna, Austria, 10-14 June, 2006. 7 p. Full text | Full text

Sharifi, M.A., Boerboom, L.G.J. and ... [et al.] (2006) Spatial multiple criteria decision analysis in integrated planning for public transport and land use development study in Klang Valley, Malaysia. In: Proceedings of the ISPRS midterm conference, Commission VI, WG VI/4, Theory and concepts of spatio-temporal data chandelling and information, Vienna, Austria, 10-14 June, 2006. 7 p. Full text

Boerboom, L.G.J., Sharifi, M.A. and ... [et al.] (2004) Spatial multi - criteria evaluation to enhance governance : changes in Malaysian planning. In: GISDECO 2004 : proceedings of the 7th international seminar on GIS for developing countries : GIS capacity building and infrastructure : 10-12 May 2004, Johor, Malaysia. 12 p. Full text | Full text

van Westen, C.J., Montoya, A.L., Boerboom, L.G.J. and Badilla Coto, E. (2002) Multi - hazard risk assessment using GIS in urban areas : a case study for the city of Turrialba, Costa Rica. In: Proceedings of the regional workshop on best practices in disaster mitigation : lessons learned from the Asian urban disaster mitigation program and other initiatives, 24-26 September 2002, Bali, Indonesia. pp. 120-136. Full text

Scientific and Professional Publications

Boerboom, L.G.J. and OskayAlan, O. (2012) Implementation, challenges and future directions of integrating services from the GIS and decision science domains. In: OSGeo Journal, Special issue on FOSS4G 2011 conference, 10(2012), pp. 49-59. Full text | Full text

Navarra, D.D., van Westen, C.J., van der Veen, A., Parodi, G.N., Boerboom, L.G.J., Merchand, M., Nekhai, O., Arriaza, M., de Bruijn, K.M., Mens, M.P.J., Slinger, J.H., Cuppen, M.E., Krywkow, J., Leenders, J.K., Wagemaker, J., Roelevink, A. and Rientjes, T.H.M. (2011) Innovation, risk and governance : case studies on innovative approaches to EGovernance and risk management. Edizioni Fotograf, 2011. ISBN: 978-88-95272-99-3.

Flacke, J. and Boerboom, L.G.J. (2010) Spatial decision support systems : 2 DVD : distance education. Enschede, ITC, 2010.

Buhren, K., Decker, B., Boerboom, L.G.J. (contributor) , Christiansen, M. (contributor) , Kuffer, M. (contributor) , McCall, M.K. (contributor) , Qual, W. (contributor) , Tukstra, J. (contributor) and Verplanke, J.J. (contributor)  (2008) Building an environmental management information system, EMIS : handbook with toolkit : e-book. Nairobi, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), 2008. The SCP source book series , Full text

Boerboom, L.G.J. and Groenendijk, E.M.C. (2007) Can we benefit at ITC from distance learning?. In: ITC News magazine,  (2007)1 pp. 8-9. Full text | Full text

Sharifi, M.A., Boerboom, L.G.J. and Shamsudin, K. (2006) The application of multiple criteria decision analysis in the Klang valley integrated land use and transportation study. In: Implementing multi-criteria decision making MCDM in Malaysian town planning / ed. by K. Shamsudin. Kuala Lumpur : Federal Department of Town and Country Planning, 2006. ISBN 983-2773-81-4. pp. 83-102.

Stein, A., Boerboom, L.G.J., Hussin, Y.A., Mannaerts, C.M., van der Meer, F.D. and Wytzisk, A. (2006) Self evaluation : ITC research and graduate programme, geo - information science and earth observation. Enschede, ITC, 2006. ITC Research and graduate programme : research evaluation key document , Full text

Boerboom, L.G.J., Sharifi, M.A., Shamsudin, K. and Kabir, A. (2006) Spatial multi - criteria evaluation to strengthen governance : developments in Malaysian planning. In: Implementing multi-criteria decision making MCDM in Malaysian town planning / ed. by K. Shamsudin. Kuala Lumpur : Federal Department of Town and Country Planning, 2006. ISBN 983-2773-81-4. pp. 103-118.

Boerboom, L.G.J. (2005) Helderheid in besluitvorming. In: Rooilijn : tijdschrift voor wetenschap en beleid in de ruimtelijke ordening, (2005)7, pp. 351-356. Full text | Full text

Jongman, R.H.G., Berends, H. and Boerboom, L.G.J. (2005) Socio - economic aspects, stakeholders and decision making. In: Water for food and ecosystems : Pantanal-Taquari : tools for decision making in integrated water management : final report. Wageningen: Alterra, 2005. pp. 168-173. Full text

Sharifi, M.A., Boerboom, L.G.J. and Shamsudin, K. (2004) The application of multiple criteria decision analysis in the Klang valley integrated land use and transportation study. In: Malaysian Townplan, 2(2004)1, pp. 40-55. Full text

Sharifi, M.A., Boerboom, L.G.J. and Shamsudin, K. (2004) Evaulating rail network options using multiple criteria decision analysis MCDA : case study Klang valley, Malaysia. In: Applications of planning and decision support systems / ed. by A. Abdullah and K. Shamsudin and M.F. Abdullah. Kuala Lumpur: International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), 2004. ISBN 983-40872-6-8. pp. 21-61.

Presentations

Petr, M., Boerboom, L.G.J., van der Veen, A. and Ray, D. (2012) The assessment of the future risk of climate impacts on tree species in Britain : use of probabilistic climate change projections and an ecological site classification : powerpoint. Presented at: the International Conference Tackling climate change : the contribution of forest scientific knowledge : 21-24 May, 2012, Tours, France. 15 slides. Full text | Full text

Sargordi, F., Sharifi, M.A., Boerboom, L.G.J. and van Keulen, H. (2008) Setting the windows of opportunities for sustainable agriculture using multiple goal linear programming MGLP : case study Borkhar district, Iran : poster. Presented at the European Geosociences Union EGU General assembly 2008, Vienna, Austria, 13-18 April 2008. Full text

Martínez, J.A. and Boerboom, L.G.J. (2006) A simulation for modelling slum improved dynamics : abstract. In: Proceedings of the international workshop geo-spatial information and decision support for urban planning : School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, 30-31 October 2006. Wuhan: Wuhan University School of Urban Design, 2006. 1 p. Full text