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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
- 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
21 - 30 of 184
- Have land use and land cover change affected soil thickness and weathering degree in a subtropical region in Southern Brazil? Insights from applied mid-infrared spectroscopy(2021)
Authors: Liesa Brosens, Jérémy Robinet, Gerard Govers, Jan Vanderborght
- How soil erosion and runoff are related to land use, topography and annual precipitation: Insights from a meta-analysis of erosion plots in China(2021)
Authors: Gerard Govers
- Historical dynamics of landslide risk from population and forest-cover changes in the Kivu Rift(2021)
Authors: Arthur Depicker, Liesbet Jacobs, Anton Van Rompaey, Gerard Govers
Pages: 965 - 974 - El Nino driven extreme sea levels in an Eastern Pacific tropical river delta: Landward amplification and shift from oceanic to fluvial forcing(2021)
Authors: Gerard Govers
- Interactions between deforestation, landscape rejuvenation, and shallow landslides in the North Tanganyika-Kivu rift region, Africa(2021)
Authors: Arthur Depicker, Gerard Govers, Liesbet Jacobs, Benjamin Campforts
Pages: 445 - 462 - How water flow components affect sediment dynamics modeling in a Brazilian catchment(2021)
Authors: Gerard Govers
- Rapid soil organic carbon decomposition in river systems: effects of the aquatic microbial community and hydrodynamical disturbance(2021)
Authors: Man Zhao, Liesbet Jacobs, Steven Bouillon, Gerard Govers
Pages: 1511 - 1523 - Soil lifespans and how they can be extended by land use and management change(2020)
Authors: Gerard Govers
- Parameterization of river incision models requires accounting for environmental heterogeneity: insights from the tropical Andes(2020)
Authors: Benjamin Campforts, Matthias Vanmaercke, Patrick Willems, Gerard Govers
Pages: 447 - 470 - Slope gradient controls soil thickness and chemical weathering in subtropical Brazil: Understanding rates and timescales of regional soilscape evolution through a combination of field data and modeling(2020)
Authors: Liesa Brosens, Benjamin Campforts, Jérémy Robinet, Gerard Govers