My research interests lie in the field of agricultural land planning. More specifically, my research aims to provide an improved decision-support tool for agricultural land planning at the meso-level. The tool combines multiple modeling methods, including LCA for environmental impact assessment, spatial optimization for generating optimized land planning scenarios, GIS for spatial data manipulation, and agent-based modeling for integrating individual behaviors.



Fields of activities

My research interests lie in the field of agricultural land planning. More specifically, my research aims to provide an improved decision-support tool for agricultural land planning at the meso-level. The tool combines multiple modeling methods, including LCA for environmental impact assessment, spatial optimization for generating optimized land planning scenarios, GIS for spatial data manipulation, and agent-based modeling for integrating individual behaviors. Thanks to the increasing computing power, these tools are combined and implemented in the same programming platform with Python.
 
Research projects
PhD project of SELECT (2018-2022)
    •    Extended title: SustainablE land use planning using spatialized territorial Life cycle optimization
    •    Funder: F.R.S.-FNRS, Appel: Aspirant/ASP
    •    Brief abstract: The general goal of this research is to support decision making in land use planning in the context of agricultural territory. This decision-support tool integrates territorial life cycle assessment (territorial LCA), agent-based modelling (ABM), geographical information system (GIS) and multi-objective optimization (MOO). The output of the model provides optimal land planning scenarios that are already optimized over multiple environmental objectives, considering site-specific characteristics and dynamic factors.

Project of LiCOR plan (2017 - 2019)
    •    Extended title: Life cycle thinking for sustainability optimized regional land use planning
    •    Funder : F.R.S.-FNRS, MIS
    •    Brief abstract: The major and long term aim of this project is to make the analytical power of life cycle assessment available in regional land use planning decisions. The specific two-year project is to provide environmentally optimized land allocation scenarios for the Walloon agricultural lands currently used for meat production to maximize the satisfaction of the internal meat and biomass-for-energy demand of the 2050 low-carbon society transition scenario.
Publications
  • Ding T, Bourrelly S, Achten WMJ (2020) Operationalising territorial life cycle inventory through the development of territorial emission factor for European agricultural land use. J Clean Prod 263:121565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121565
  • Ding T, Bourrelly S, Achten WMJ (2021) Application of territorial emission factors with open-access data—a territorial LCA case study of land use for livestock production in Wallonia. Int J Life Cycle Assess. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-021-01949-3
  • Access to her page on researchgate
Mail : tianran.ding@ulb.be
Tél : (+32) 487843625
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