Centre for Sustainable Tourism and Transport
Martin Landré | |
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| Education: | Martin Landré (1948) is lecturer research in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences since September 2000. In his teaching capacity, he is responsible for courses in planning methods, geographical information systems, cartography, evaluation methods and demography. |
| Career: | He specializes in spatial decision support systems, and has a particular interest in collaborative planning and land use modelling. He was previously for many years associate professor of geography at the University of South Africa in Pretoria and a town planning consultant. He studied human geography at the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University and town and regional planning at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. In 1987 he received a D Litt et Phil degree at the University of South Africa for his thesis on the role of geography in urban planning practice. He worked as a town planner in provincial and local government in the Cape Province before accepting a teaching position at the University of South Africa in 1978. He has published many academic and professional journal articles, conference papers, book chapters and reports as well as a textbook on urban modeling. He is presently involved in the development of decision support systems for tourist destination planning. As a researcher and consultant he has participated in many projects on urbanization policy, spatial economic development, land use planning, impact analysis, location analysis and retail planning, mainly in South Africa, and more recently on recreation monitoring in the Netherlands. |
| Expertise: | Geographical Information Systems (GIS), cartography, land use planning |
| Publications: | Analyzing yachting patterns in the Biesbosch National Park using GIS technology Editorial special issue EJTIR 2011 GIS in response time analysis. Fire Station, Zutphen, Netherlands. The Emerging Global Tourism Geography—An Environmental Sustainability Perspective Manual of excellence in lake tourism in Europe |
