Resume of Dr. H.A.M.J. (Hein) van Gils

Background

Hein van Gils holds an MSc degree in Natural and Social Sciences and a PhD degree in Mathematics and Natural Sciences (Geobotany) from the Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. His PhD thesis tested the prediction of the presence of a specific flora assemblage in the contact zone between submediterranean montane forests and grassland throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Thereafter he undertook a series of short contracts as a private consultant (in Botswana and The Netherlands) and teacher before starting his career at ITC in 1979. At ITC he pursued a rewarding blend of consultancy, academic teaching, project management and scientific research. His consulting work included capacity-building and product development of remote sensing and GIS with clients from inter alia UN organizations, multi-lateral banks, NGOs and the Dutch government. His educational achievements include supervision of over a hundred MSc research students in four continents. Currently he is co-promotor of several PhD candidates. He has published widely on natural resource management issues in a diverse range of ecological and policy environments and is the leading author of two regional environmental profiles in Zambia and Pakistan. From 1992 to 1994, he was granted leave-without-pay from ITC to take up an appointment as the senior technical advisor of environment at the United Nations Multilateral Financial Agency (IFAD) in Rome, where he pioneered Environmental Impact Assessments. From 1995 to 2004 he led the design and development of land information management training and education for the implementation of land reform in Namibia and South Africa. In December 2009 he successfully completed the building of the national Geographic Information Center for Natural Resource Management in Mongolia, a project for which he was the ITC team leader. His current research focus is on the link between land tenure and natural resource management as well as on various ecosystem patterns and processes in the Majella National Wilderness Park, central Apennines, Italy. His teaching includes GIS-based land use zoning and EIA and research skills.

Publications

ISI Journal Articles

Pittiglio, C., Skidmore, A.K., van Gils, H.A.M.J. and Prins, H.H.T. (2013) Elephant response to spatial heterogeneity in a savanna landscape of northern Tanzania. In: Ecography : pattern and diversity in ecology, (2013)IN PRESS13 p. Full text | Full text

Boakye, E.A., van Gils, H.A.M.J., Osei, E.M. and Asare, V.N.A. (2012) Does forest restoration using taungya foster tree species diversity? The case of Afram headwaters forest reserve in Ghana. In: African journal of ecology, 50 (2012)3 pp. 319-325. Full text | Full text

van Gils, H.A.M.J., Conti, F., Ciaschetti, G. and Westinga, E. (2012) Fine resolution distribution modelling of endemics in Majella National Park, Central Italy. In: Plant biosystems, 146(2012)Sup.1. pp 276-287. Full text | Full text

Pittiglio, C., Skidmore, A.K., van Gils, H.A.M.J. and Prins, H.H.T. (2012) Identifying transit corridors for elephant using a long time - series. In: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation : JAG, 14 (2012)1 pp. 61-72. Full text | Full text

van Gils, H.A.M.J., Odoi, J.O. and Andrisano, T. (2010) From monospecific to mixed forest after fire : an early forecast for the montane belt of Majella, Italy. In: Forest ecology and management, 259 (2010)3 pp. pp. 433-439. Full text | Full text

Ngene, S.M., van Gils, H.A.M.J., van Wieren, S.E., Rasmussen, H., Skidmore, A.K., Prins, H.H.T., Toxopeus, A.G. and ... [et al.] (2010) The ranging patterns of elephants in Marsabit protected area, Kenya : the use of satellite linked GPS collars. In: African journal of ecology, 48 (2010)2 pp. 386-400. Full text | Full text

van Gils, H.A.M.J. and Kayijamahe, E. (2010) Sharing natural resources: mountain gorillas and people in the Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda. In: African journal of ecology, 48 (2010)3 pp. 621-627. Full text | Full text

Ngene, S.M., Skidmore, A.K., van Gils, H.A.M.J., Douglas-Hamilton, I. and Omondi, P. (2009) Elephant distribution around a volcanic shield dominated by a mosaic of forest and savanna, Marsabit, Kenya. In: African journal of ecology, 47 (2009)2 pp. 234-245. Full text | Full text

van Gils, H.A.M.J., Batsukh Orgil, Rossiter, D.G. and ... [et al.] (2008) Forecasting the pattern and pace of Fagus forest expansion in Majella national park, Italy. In: Applied vegetation science, 11(2008)4, pp. 539-546. Full text

van Gils, H.A.M.J., Mwanangi, M. and Rugege, D. (2006) Invasion of an alien shrub across four land management regimes, west of St. Lucia, South Africa. In: South African journal of science, 102(2006), pp. 9-12. Full text

van Gils, H.A.M.J. and Loza Armand Ugon, A.V. (2006) What drives conversion of tropical forest in Carrasco province, Bolivia?. In: Ambio : a journal of the human environment, 35 (2006)2 pp. 81-85. Full text | Full text

van Gils, H.A.M.J., Delfino, J., Rugege, D. and Janssen, L. (2004) Efficacy of Chromolaena odorata control in a South African conservation forest. In: South African journal of science, 100(2004)3, pp. 251-253. Full text

Salvatori, V., Egunyu, F., Skidmore, A.K., de Leeuw, J. and van Gils, H.A.M.J. (2001) The effects of fire and grazing pressure on vegetation cover and small mammal populations in the Maasai Mara national reserve. In: African Journal of Ecology, 39(2001)2, pp. 200-204. Full text | Full text

Esselink, P. and van Gils, H.A.M.J. (1994) Nitrogen and phosphorus limited production of cereals and semi-natural annual-type pastures in SW-Spain. In: Acta Oecologica, 15(1994)3, pp. 337-354. Full text

Beek, K.J. and van Gils, H.A.M.J. (1992) Global and environmental monitoring : the challenges to educators. In: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 47 (1992)1 pp. 51-58. Full text | Full text

van Gils, H.A.M.J. (1988) Mid - altitudinal vegetation of the Macaronesian island Santo Antao, Cabo Verde. In: Vegetatio, 74(1988)1, pp. 33-38. Full text

van der Meulen, F. and van Gils, H.A.M.J. (1983) Savannas of southern Africa : attributes and use of some types along the Tropic of Capricorn. In: Bothalia, 14(1983)3-4, pp. 675-681. Full text

van Althuis, M., van Gils, H.A.M.J. and Keysers, E. (1979) Groupements de lisière et stades évolutifs du 'Brachypodio - Geranion' dans le série septentrionale du Chêne pubescent Des Alpes Nord - Occidentales et du jura Méridional, France. In: Bulletin de la Societe Royale de Botanique de Belgique, 112(1979) pp. 96-127. Full text

Eijsink, J. and van Gils, H.A.M.J. (1979) Standortverhältnisse und Morphometrie von Geranium sanguineum L auf der Combe Martigny im Walliser Rhônetal, Schweiz : Site conditions and morphometry of Geranium sanguineum L. on the Combe Martigny in the Vailaisian part of the Rhône vally, Switzerland. In: Flora, 168(1979), pp. 241-262. Full text

van Gils, H.A.M.J. and Huits, P. (1978) Standplaats, stengelhoogte en levensduur van Inula conyza DC, in Nederland. In: Gorteria, 9(1978)4, pp. 93-103. Full text

van Gils, H.A.M.J. and Keysers, E. (1978) Staudengesellschaften mit Geranium sanguineum und Trifolium medium in der sub - montanen Stufe des Walliser Rhonetals, Schweiz. In: Folia Geobotanica, 13(1978), pp. 351-369. Full text

van Gils, H.A.M.J. and Kovács, A.J. (1977) Geranion Sanguinei communities in Transsylvania. In: Vegetatio, 33 (1977)2-3 pp. 175-186. Full text

van Gils, H.A.M.J. and Kozlowska, A.B. (1977) Xerothermic forb fringes and forb meadows in the Lublin and little Poland highlands. In: Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie voor Wetenschappen, Series C. Biological and Medical Sciences, Vol. 80(1977)4, pp. 281-296. Full text

van Gils, H.A.M.J., Keysers, E. and Launspach, W. (1975) Saumgesellschaften im klimazonalen Bereich des Ostryo - Carpinion orientalis. In: Vegetatio, 31 (1975)1 pp. 47-64. Full text

Book Chapters

Ngene, S.M., Skidmore, A.K., van Gils, H.A.M.J., van Wieren, S.E., Prins, H.H.T., Douglas-Hamilton, I. and Toxopeus, A.G. (2012) Intensity of elephant occupancy in Marsabit protected area, Kenya : effects of biophysical and anthropogenic factors. In: Elephants : ecology, behavior and conservation / editor M. Aranovich and O. Dufresne. - New York : Nova publishers, 2012. - (Animal science, issues and professions) ISBN 978-1-61200-066-2. pp. 153-172. Full text

Ngene, S.M., Skidmore, A.K., van Gils, H.A.M.J., Prins, H.H.T., Toxopeus, A.G. and Douglas-Hamilton, I. (2012) Walk or stride? a question for roaming herds of elephants in Marsabit, protected area. In: Elephants : ecology, behavior and conservation / editor M. Aranovich and O. Dufresne. - New York : Nova publishers, 2012. - (Animal science, issues and professions) ISBN 978-1-61200-066-2. pp. 173-192. Full text

PhD Theses

Pittiglio, C., Skidmore, A.K. (Promotor) , Prins, H.H.T. (Promotor) and van Gils, H.A.M.J. (assistant promotor) (2012) Human - wildlife interface in African Savanna : quantifying landscape fragmentation for predicting wildlife distribution and human - wildlife conflicts. Enschede, University of Twente Faculty of Geo-Information and Earth Observation (ITC), 2012. ITC Dissertation 220, ISBN: 978-90-6164-346-3. Full text

Ngene, S.M., Skidmore, A.K. (Promotor) , Prins, H.H.T. (Promotor) and van Gils, H.A.M.J. (assistant promotor) (2010) Why elephant roam. Enschede, University of Twente Faculty of Geo-Information and Earth Observation (ITC), 2010. ITC Dissertation 171, ISBN: 978-90-6164-290-9. Full text

Conference Proceedings (full papers)

Bennett, R.M., van Gils, H.A.M.J., Zevenbergen, J.A., Lemmen, C.H.J. and Wallace, J. (2013) Continuing to bridge the cadastral divide. In: proceedings of Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2013, 8-11 April 2013, Washington DC, United States of America. 22 p. Full text

Huizing, H.G.J., Groten, S.M.E., Toxopeus, A.G., van Gils, H.A.M.J. and de Leeuw, J. (1997) ITC's contribution to GIS training and capacity building for natural resource management. In: Proceedings of the AFRICAGIS '97 conference, 23-27 June 1997, Gaborone, Botswana, 9 p. Full text

Beek, K.J. and van Gils, H.A.M.J. (1990) Global and environmental monitoring : the challenges to educators. In: ISPRS 1990 : Vol. 28 : Commission VII : September 17-21 1990, Canada, pp. 12-19.

Yath, Y.A. and van Gils, H.A.M.J. (1986) Multi temporal Landsat for land unit mapping on project scale of the Sudd floodplain, Southern Sudan.. In: ISPRS 1986 : Vol. XXVI Commission VII part 1, 2 and 3 : remote sensing for resources development and environmental management : proceedings of the 7th international symposium, Enschede, 25 - 29 August 1986. - Rotterdam etc. : Balkema, 1986. - (International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing : IAPRS : ISPRS ; Vol.XXVIComm; ) pp 531-532. Full text

van Gils, H.A.M.J. (1983) Rangelands of the world : unifying vegetation features. In: Proceedings of the workshop on land evaluation for extensive grazing LEEG : international workshop : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia October 31 - November 4, 1983. / ed. by. W. Siderius. - Wageningen : International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement (ILRI), 1984. (ILRI Publication ; 36; ). pp. 17-26. Full text

Scientific and Professional Publications

van Gils, H.A.M.J. and Holland, E.W. (2001) Training and education in land management in Southern Africa TELMSA : final report, 1 January 1999 - 1 September 2001. Enschede, ITC, 2001.

van Gils, H.A.M.J. (1994) Preliminary development and testing phase natural resource management for rural poverty alleviation pilot environmental assessments : progress report 18.02.94. In: original paper.

van Gils, H.A.M.J. (1993) Vegetation classification : a review for harmonization of maps. In: Workshop on vegetation classification held in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, 24-26 January 1993, 29 p. Full text

van Gils, H.A.M.J. (editor) and Shabbir Baig, M. (editor) (1992) Environmental profile Balochistan Pakistan : text and appendices. Enschede, ITC, 1992. ISBN: 90-6900-009-1.

Esselink, P., Schotel, J. and van Gils, H.A.M.J. (1991) Nitrogen- and phosphorus, limited primary production of annuals : a case study of semi - natural grazing lands, Dehesas, in southwestern Spain, with implications for their exploitation. Enschede, ITC, 1991. ITC Publication 11, ISBN: 90-6164-072-5.

van Gils, H.A.M.J. (1990) Ecological monitoring in Uganda : mission to Uganda : 7 - 30 May 1990. In: Debriefing report to United Nations Sudano Sahelian Office (UNSO), UNEP, 1990, 25 p.

van Gils, H.A.M.J. (1988) Environmental profile : western province, Zambia. Enschede ; Mongu, ITC ; Provincial Planning Unit, 1988.

van Gils, H.A.M.J. and Zonneveld, I.S. (1981) Aerial and space surveys and the development of animal husbandry. In: The Courier, (1981)65, pp. 79-80.

Zonneveld, I.S., van Gils, H.A.M.J. and Thalen, D.C.P. (1979) Aspects of the ITC approach to vegetation survey. In: Documents Phytosociologiques : New Series, IV(1979), pp. 1029-1063. Full text

Presentations

Pittiglio, C., Skidmore, A.K., van Gils, H.A.M.J. and ... [et al.] (2011) Elephant response to spatial heterogeneity in a savanna landscape : poster. Presented at the 3rd Remote Sensing Symposium, RSS : 21st century challenges, 8 September 2011, Wageningen, the Netherlands. 1 p. Full text

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