Salim Belyazid Associate professor, Docent
Contact
Name and title: Salim BelyazidAssociate professor, Docent
Workplace: Department of Physical Geography Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room T 316Svante Arrhenius väg 8
Postal address Inst för naturgeografi 106 91 Stockholm
About me
I am a senior lecturer in environmental management with a specialization in multi-disciplinary systems analysis and dynamic modeling. I combine teaching and education on the subjects of dynamic modelling, ecosystem health and resilience, environmental change and stakeholder management. I am an applied systems analyst, meaning that I strive for my research and education to have direct societal impacts. I have a background in instrumentation engineering, environmental sciences and environmental chemical engineering.
Teaching makes up around half of my time at the university. I can hardly overstate how inspiring and rewarding it is to work with our talented teachers and students on wide range of courses and themes.
Primarily, I am responsible for the master's program in Environmental Management and Physical Planning. I am also responsible for the courses: Applied Environmental Modelling (a favorit of mine), Case studies in Environmental Impact Assessments (a hands on course closely applied to current societal projects), the Degree project in Environmental Science and Physical Planning, and the traineeship in Environmental Protection.
I am invovled in a number of courses, such as Environemntal Management in Planning, International Environmental Issues and Environmental Protection and Management.
My research focuses primarily on the development and application of integrated, process based ecosystem models, aiming to inform policy about patterns of resource use that do not compromise ecosystem viability. Occasionally, I happily divert into anything systems analytical. Currently, I am most involved in research about water, carbon and nutrient balances in boreal and nemoral forest ecosystems and their responses to global change, the viability of a transition to the bio-based economy, and the links between resource scarcity and conflicts.
Currently I am involved in several research projects supported by Swedish and EU funding agencies, and dealing with the following subjects:
- Restoration of drained and forested organic soils to recreate carbon sinks.
- Nutrient sustainability in European agricultural soils.
- Decision support for forestry based on dynamic modelling to account for climate changes effects.
- Cumulative effects in Environmental Impact Assessments.