Dr. Vassilis Detsis is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics & Sustainable Development at Harokopio University, Athens, Greece. He graduated from the Biology Dept of the University of Athens and received his PhD from the University of Essen, Germany.

His current research interests focus on the analysis of historical land use and land cover change and their association with the relevant proximate causes and driving forces in an effort to understand the emergence of the observed patterns through the combined action of natural and anthropogenic processes, as well as their implications for the ecology and the state of land resources of the areas under study.

He has published 32 papers in peer-reveiwed journals, a monograph and six chapters in edited books and has presented his work in several scientific congresses. He has taken part in several research projects.

He has been Secretary (2016-2018) and Chairman (2018-2021) of the Hellenic Ecological Society.He is a member of the “Historical Landscape Ecology Working Group” of IALE and the Greek Zoological Society.

https://detsis.dhee.people.hua.gr/EN/IndexUK.htm

More information on published work is available at google scholar and researchgate.

Selected publications

• Maitane Erdozain, Iciar Alberdi, Réka Aszalós, Kurt Bollmann, Vassilis Detsis, Jurij Diaci, Martina Dodan, Georgios Efthimiou, László Gálhidy, Marie Haase, Johanna Hoffmann, Delphine Jaymond, Elisabeth Johann, Henrik Jørgensen, Frank Krumm, Timo Kuuluvainen, Thibault Lachat, Katharina Lapin, Marcus Lindner, Palle Madsen, Liviu Nichiforel, Maciej Pach, Yoan Paillet, Ciprian Palaghianu, Jordi Palau, Jesús Pemán, Sanja Perić, Susanne Raum, Silvio Schueler, Jerzy Skrzyszewski, Johan Svensson, Sander Teeuwen, Giorgio Vacchiano, Kris Vandekerkhove, Isabel Cañellas, María Menéndez-Miguélez, Leland Leland K. Werden, Aitor Àvila & Sergio de-Miguel The Evolution of Forest Restoration in Europe: A Synthesis for a Step Forward Based on National Expert Knowledge. For. Rep. 11, 4 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40725-024-00235-3
• Antigoni Faka, Triantafyllos Falaras, Christos Chalkias, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Vassilis Detsis, Chapter 3 – Is there any pure nature left? A geospatial analysis approach of perceived landscape naturalness, Editor(s): George P. Petropoulos, Christos Chalkias, Geographical Information Science, Elsevier, 2024, Pages 51-67, ISBN 9780443136054, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-13605-4.00014-X.
• Papadias, E., Detsis, V., Hadjikyriacou, A., Papadopoulos, A. G., Vradis, C., & Chalkias, C. (2023). Long-Term Dynamics of Viticultural Landscape in Cyprus—Four Centuries of Expansion, Contraction and Spatial Displacement. Land, 12(6), 1143. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12061143
• Detsis, V., Gkadolou, E., Koutsovoulou, K., & Tolias, G. (2022). Long-Term Landscape Dynamics to Assess Land Degradation Hypotheses—An Exploratory Study of Evidence from Travelers’ Narrations. Sustainability, 14(14), 8543. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14148543
• Roxanne Suzette Lorilla, Konstantinos Poirazidis, Vassilis Detsis, Stamatis Kalogirou, Christos Chalkias, Socio-ecological determinants of multiple ecosystem services on the Mediterranean landscapes of the Ionian Islands (Greece), Ecological Modelling, Volume 422, 2020, 108994, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.108994