PhD in Environmental Management and Policy, Professor at the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean. Director of PrecFarm: Laboratory of Rural Geography and Precision Agriculture Systems.
Subject: Olive plantations and the environment: Adapting to new realities
Thanasis Kizos is Professor in “Rural Geography” in the Department of Geography,University of the Aegean since 2005 and the Head of the Department since 2020. He holds a bachelor in Agronomy from the Department of Agronomy of the School of Geotechnical Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a Ph.D. in Environmental Management and Policy from the Department of Environmental Studies of the University of the Aegean. He is the Director of “PrecFarm: Laboratory of Rural Geography and Precision Agriculture Systems” and does research in Rural Development, Land Management and Precision Framing Systems. He has published in agricultural landscape change, land use planning,
agroforestry, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity impacts of agricultural systems amongother topics. European Union. Some recent projects he participates in are Terra Lemnia (https://terra-lemnia.net/en/), Terracescape (http://www.lifeterracescape.aegean.gr/en/)
and SIPATH (Operationalizing Sustainable Agricultural Intensification Pathways in Europe). He also participated in the past in the Project “Sustainable futures for Europe’s HERitage in CULtural landscapES: Tools for understanding, managing, and protecting landscape functions
and values ” (HERCULES) and LEDDRA (Land and Ecosystem Degradation and Desertification: Assessing the Fit of Responses; 2010-2014). Recently he published the book “Rural Development: Concepts, Practices and Policies” (2018) Tziola publications, Athens.
The full list of his publications is available at Research Gate web page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thanasis-Kizos
Department web page: https://geography.aegean.gr/ppl/index_en.php?content=0&bio=akizos
Indicative recent peer reviewed papers
1) Dimopoulos, T., Kizos, T. (2020) Mapping change in the agricultural landscape of Lemnos, Landscape and Urban Planning, 2020, 203, 103894,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.103894
2) Karampela, S., Kizos, T. (2018) Agritourism and local development: Evidence fromtwo case studies in Greece, International Journal of Tourism Research, https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2206
3) Kizos, T., Verburg, P., Bürgi, M., Gounaridis, D., Plieninger, T., Bieling, C., Balatsos, T. (2018) From concepts to practice: combining different approaches to understand drivers of landscape change, Ecology & Society
4) Kizos, T., Koshaka, R., Penker, M., Piatti, C., Vogl, C. R., Uchiyama, Y. (2017) Thegovernance of geographical indications: experiences of practical implementation of selected case studies in Austria, Italy, Greece and Japan. British Food Journal, Vol. 119 Issue: 12, pp. 2863-2879, https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-01-2017-003710/2017
5) Plieninger, T., Kohsaka, R., Bieling, C., Hashimoto, S., Kamiyama, C., Kizos, T., Penker, M., Kieninger, P., Shaw, B. J., Sioen, G., Yoshida, Y., Saito, O. (2017) Fostering biocultural diversity in landscapes through place-based food networks: a ‘‘solution scan’’ of European and Japanese models. Sustainability Science, DOI:10.1007/s11625-017-0455-z