15:00 to 15:20

Passport for sustainable business locations

Karolien Vermeiren

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Passport for sustainable business locations

15:00 to 15:20 14 Jun

Finding sustainable locations and implementing (more) sustainability in the logistics of your process, employees, products … is challenging and requires a lot information which is not easy to find and needs to be tailored to your business practices in order to give hands on advice and ideas on actions that can be taken. VITO is bringing together spatial data and processes them to readable, understandable, inspiring and revealing indicators in the form of a sustainability passport to find optimal locations for your business (hubs) and to find the best opportunities to incorporate more spatial sustainability into your business in order to minimize pains and optimize gains related to locations and logistics.

Karolien Vermeiren

Business developer & researcher sustainable land use VITO

Karolien graduated as a Master in Geography in 2009 and obtained a PhD in Sciences – Geography – in 2015 from KU Leuven (Belgium). During her PhD research she modelled urban expansion and social segregation in developing countries. In 2014 she joined the VITO spatial and dynamical environmental modelling team, first as a researcher developing GIS-based methodologies and models to support the sustainability transition in spatially related challenges. These spatial challenges reach a wide range of topics such as finding best locations for new energy production installations, finding exchange opportunities between demand and offer of water, developing a priority model for potentially polluted soils etc. Since 2018 she is the first contact point of new spatial challenges and questions that reach the team which are supporting Karolien in the exploration of new and innovative strategic research lines in the spatial modelling practices of the team.

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