Yue Dou

Yue Dou is completing her PhD degree in the department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo. She is working with Dr. Peter Deadman on the project “Sociocultural Adaptation of Caboclos Communities to Extreme Tidal Events in the Amazon Estuary of Brazil” funded by International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Quite ambitious, the overarching goal of her PhD project is to better map out future by improving the understanding of human-environment interactions in a changing environment, via the construction and utilization of an agent-based model.

Yue has been fascinated by the complexity of coupled human-environment systems since her senior year in undergrad. Having extensive research experiences in GIS and RS applications, land use models including CLUE-S and ABM, ecosystem service assessment, and impacts of government policies on land use behaviors and livelihood, she is particularly interested in investigating the resilience of coupled human and environment systems with an emphasis on vulnerable communities in less-developed areas by quantitative models.

Besides research, Yue taught Principles of GISscience to more than a hundred undergrad students in Spring Term 2015. She is also the coordinator of CHANS working group at WICI.