Researcher
Gerard Govers
- Disciplines:Atmospheric sciences, Physical geography and environmental geoscience, Atmospheric sciences, challenges and pollution, Geomatic engineering, Geophysics, Environmental science and management, Soil sciences, challenges and pollution, Urban and regional design, development and planning, Scientific computing, Tourism, Education curriculum, Education systems, Demography, Policy and administration, Economic geography, Human geography, Recreation, leisure and tourism geography, Urban and regional geography, Other social and economic geography
Affiliations
- Geography and Tourism (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2020 → Today - Division of Geography and Tourism (Division)
Member
From1 Oct 1999 → 31 Jul 2020
Projects
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- Leuven 2030 Urban LabFrom1 Oct 2023 → TodayFunding: Cities and Municipalities
- Looking through the clouds or fly below? Developing a flexible drone platform for detection, monitoring and mapping at KU LeuvenFrom1 Jan 2021 → 31 Dec 2022Funding: BOF - scientific equipment program
- On the rice: a holistic approach to identify countries with an imminent imbalance between rice supply and demand in AfricaFrom1 Nov 2019 → 1 Nov 2023Funding: FWO fellowships
- SWAMP:Schistosomiasis in West-Uganda: Analyse and Mapping of PrevalenceFrom1 Apr 2019 → 31 Dec 2019Funding: VLIR-UOS North/South Cooperation Program (NSS)
- Implementation of an ESERO (European space education resource office) in BelgiumFrom1 Jan 2019 → 31 Dec 2019Funding: Private funding of national origin - undefined
- Energy monitoring on student roomsFrom1 May 2018 → 30 Jun 2020Funding: Provinces
- Reconstructing environmental change in the Lake Alaotra region, MadagascarFrom8 Jan 2018 → 25 Apr 2023Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Coastal wetland response to sea level rise: an integrative marsh – mangrove study on soil elevation and soil carbon responseFrom1 Jan 2018 → 31 Dec 2021Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- The role of lavaka in the landscapes of Madagascar: a process-based approach.From2 Oct 2017 → 31 Dec 2022Funding: FWO fellowships
- Quantifying the impact of climate and tectonic gradients on landscape evolution across timescales: Explicit integration of cosmogenic radio nuclide and thermochronometric data in numerical landscape evolution models.From1 Oct 2017 → 18 Jun 2021Funding: FWO fellowships
Publications
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- Under pressure: lavaka in the changing environment of Madagascar(2022)
Authors: Liesa Brosens, Gerard Govers, Benjamin Campforts, Steven Bouillon, Liesbet Jacobs
- The fate of erosion displaced soil organic carbon in aquatic systems(2022)
Authors: Man Zhao, Gerard Govers, Steven Bouillon
- Stable isotope profiles of soil organic carbon in forested and grassland landscapes in the Lake Alaotra basin (Madagascar): insights in past vegetation changes(2022)
Authors: Vao Fenotiana Razanamahandry, Gerard Govers, Liesa Brosens, Benjamin Campforts, Liesbet Jacobs, Steven Bouillon
Pages: 3825 - 3841 - Carbon dynamics and CO2 and CH4 exchange in the mangrove dominated Guayas river delta, Ecuador(2022)
Authors: Gerard Govers, Steven Bouillon
- Mangrove sediment organic carbon storage and sources in relation to forest age and position along a deltaic salinity gradient(2022)
Authors: Steven Bouillon, Gerard Govers
Pages: 1571 - 1585 - Comparative analysis of the Copernicus, TanDEM-X, and UAV-SfM digital elevation models to estimate lavaka (gully) volumes and mobilization rates in the Lake Alaotra region (Madagascar)(2022)
Authors: Liesa Brosens, Benjamin Campforts, Gerard Govers, Vao Fenotiana Razanamahandry, Liesbet Jacobs
Pages: 209 - 227 - Under pressure: Rapid lavaka erosion and floodplain sedimentation in central Madagascar(2022)
Authors: Liesa Brosens, Nils Broothaerts, Liesbet Jacobs, Vao Fenotiana Razanamahandry, Steven Bouillon, Gerard Govers
- Een Europees kompas voor de Vlaamse Landbouw(2021)
Authors: Tessa Avermaete, Wannes Keulemans, Olivier Honnay, Gerard Govers
Pages: 60 - 63 - Een slimme zonering van landgebruik verzoent landbouwproductie, biodiversiteit en klimaat(2021)
Authors: Olivier Honnay, Tessa Avermaete, Gerard Govers, Wannes Keulemans
Pages: 157 - 165 - Landslides in a Changing Tropical Environment: The North Tanganyika-Kivu Rift Region, Africa(2021)
Authors: Arthur Depicker, Gerard Govers, Liesbet Jacobs