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Curriculum Vitae

 

name: Jacques de Smidt

 

residence: Amsterdam, the Netherlands

 

Areas of interest and expertise:  nature conservation, environmental policy and law, endocrine disruptors in aquatic systems, pharmaceutical residues in aquatic systems

 

Involvement with environmental organisations: President of NJN 1954, president of IYF 1956. President of Dutch Society on Landscape Ecology 1996/2006. Scientific advisor of Vereniging Natuurmonumenten, Staatsbosbeheer, Utrechts Landschap, Goois Natuurreservaat.

 

Educational qualifications: Ph-D biology Utrecht University

 

Profession (current): retired

 

Profession (previous): University docent vegetation science, landscape ecology, environmental science, environmental impact assessment 1961/1997. Deputy chairman of the Dutch Commission on Environmental Impact Assessment 1986/2002. Chairman of Technical Advisory Commission on Watersafety.

 

Publications:

 

This is a selection from my bibliography that reflects my biography concerning heathlands, wetlands, riverlandscapes, eco agriculture, landscape planning, city green, grasslands

 

Smidt,J.T.de,1957.Rehabilitation of heath areas (in the Nether­lands) biologically devastated through use as army tank practice fields. Proc. and Papers 6th technical meeting Int. Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources,Edinburgh 1956:168.

Smidt, J.T.de, 1967. Phytogeographical relations in the North‑west European heath. Acta Botanica Neerlandica 15: 630‑647.

Smidt, J.T.de, 1970. De genese van het Nederlandse landschap onder invloed van de mens. In: J.C. van de Kamer(red.), Het verstoorde evenwicht: 84‑101. Oosthoek, Utrecht.

Smidt, J.T.de, 1971. Landbouw en planologie. In:  Plan, maandblad voor ontwerp en omgeving 9:19‑37.

Commissie Onderzoek Biologische Landbouwmethoden (Chairman: J.T. de Smidt), 1976. Alternatieve landbouwmethoden. Pudoc 398 p.

Smidt, J.T.de, 1977. Ecology applied in design and management of public green. Report of Int. Symp. European Landscape Contractors Association:1‑13.

Smidt, J.T.de, 1977. Heathland vegetation in the Netherlands. Phytocoenologia 4(3): 258‑316.

Smidt,J.T.de,1979. Origin and destruction of European heath vegetation. In: O.Willmanns and R.Tuxen (eds.), Werden und Vergehen von Pflanzengesellschaften.Int. Symp.Rinteln 1978,pp.411­435,Cramer,Vaduz.

Smidt,J.T.de and E.de Hullu.1980. Cyclical succession or fluctuation in permanent plots in heath vegetation. Proceedings of the symposium on vegetation dynamics in grasslands, heathlands and mediterranean ligneous formations:III‑9.International Society for vegetation science. Departement d'Ecologie Generale, Montpellier.

Gimingham,C.H. and J.T. de Smidt,1983. Heaths as natural and seminatural vegetation. In: W.Holzner, M.J.A.Werger and I.Ikusama (eds.), Man’s impact on vegetation. P.185-199.Junk Publishers.

Smidt, J.T.de,1984.(red.) Elseviers Veldgids.224 p. Ecologische beschrijvingen van onze landschappen.

Berg,W.J. van den en J.T.de Smidt,1985, De vegetatie van het Oostelijk Vechtplassengebied 1935 ‑ 1980. 155 p. Stichting Commissie voor de Vecht en het Oostelijk en Westelijk Plassengebied, Gewest Gooi en Vechtstreek.

Smidt,J.T.de, 1986. The role of protected areas in regional planning. Seminar for managers of diploma holding areas and local and regional elected representatives:1‑7.Mont Dauphin, France. European committee for the conservation of nature and natural resources. Council of Europe, Strasbourg.

Smidt,J.T.de, A.Barendregt and M.J.Wassen,1986. Impact assessment of inversion of groundwater flow in wetland ecosystems. In: Impact Assessment Today Vol 1 (eds. Henk A. Becker, Alan L. Porter), pp.281-­292. Jan van Arkel, Utrecht.

Prentice,I.C.,O.van Tongeren and J.T.de Smidt,1987. Simulation of heathland vegetation dynamics. Journal of Ecology 75:203‑219.

Wassen,M.J., A.Barendregt, A. Palczynski, J.T.de Smidt and H. de Mars,1990, Hydro-ecological analysis of the Biebrza mire, Poland. In: Martin Wassen, Water flow as a major landscape ecological factor in fen development pp. 23-44. Proefschrift Utrecht.

Smidt,J.T.de en P.van Ree,1991. The decrease of bryophytes and lichens in Dutch heathland since 1975. Acta Bot.Neerl.40:379.

Wassen, M.J., A. Barendregt, A. Palczynski, J.T. de Smidt & H. de Mars, 1992. Hydro-ecological analysis of the Biebrza mire (Poland). Wetlands Ecology and Management 2: 119-134

Smidt, Jacques de & Jan Joost Peskens, 1993. Het oerwoud van Bialowieza als referentie voor natuurontwikkeling. Landschap 10: 91-94.

Barendregt, A., M.J. Wassen & J.T. de Smidt,1993. Hydro-ecological modelling in a polder landscape: a tool for wetland management. In: Landscape ecology of a Stressed Environment Eds. V.Vos & P. Opdam), pp.79-99. Chapman and Hall, London.

Smidt, J.T. de, 1995. The imminent destruction of Northwest European heaths due to atmospheric nitrogen deposition. In: D.B.A. Thompson, Alison J. Hester and Michael B. Usher (eds.). Heaths and moorland: cultural landscapes. Scottish Natural Heritage, Edinburgh p. 206-217.

Stortelder, A.H.F., J.T. de Smidt & C.A. Swerts, 1996. Calluno-Ulicetalia. In: J.H.J. Schaminée, A.H.F. Stortelder, E.J. Weeda, 1996. De vegetatie van Nederland. Deel 3.p.287-316.

Smidt, Jacques de, 2003. How to find the landscape scale? Landschap 20/2:49.

Smidt, Jacques de, 2004. Beitrag der Begriffe Landschaft und Liebe zum Schutz der Heide. Mitteilungen aus der NNA 15. Jahrgang, Sonderheft 2: 18-21. Alfred Toepfer Akademie für Naturschutz (NNA).

Smidt, Jacques de, 2006. Landschapsecologie is mensecologie. Landschap 23/3:155.

Aat Barendregt, Rob Jongman, Jacques de Smidt, Martin Wassen, 2007. The task of landscape ecology. In: T.M. de Jong, J.N.M. Dekker, R. Posthoorn, Landscape ecology in the Dutch context, nature, town and infrastructure.  P. 605-613. KNNV, Zeist.

Peter Veen, Richard Jefferson, Jacques de Smidt, Jan van der Straaten (red.), 2009. Grasslands in Europe of high nature value. 319 p. KNNV Publishing, Zeist.