Researcher
Thomas Block
- Keywords:complex decision-making, System innovation, Sustainable Development, Urban sustainability, Sustainability Education, Future studies, Transition Governance, Science and Technology Studies
- Disciplines:Environmental and sustainable planning, Local and urban politics, Environment policy, Human-centred design, Urban and housing policy, Multilevel governance not elsewhere classified, Sustainable development, Recycling, Environmental education and extension, Futures studies, Sociology of knowledge, Sociology and social studies of science and technology
Affiliations
- Department of Political Sciences (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 2005 → Today - Department of Conflict and Development Studies (Department)
Member
From1 Mar 1999 → 31 Dec 2004
Projects
1 - 10 of 21
- Towards socio-technical collaboration? An ethnography-based inquiry into boundary work among social scientists and chemical engineersFrom1 Oct 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Discourse analysis on climate issuesFrom1 Jun 2020 → 31 May 2021Funding: Foundations, funds and other with scientific goal
- Urban Academy: a collaboratorium for sustainability issues in GhentFrom1 Jan 2020 → TodayFunding: BOF - research organisations
- Circular Prototyping / Everyone can start using biomaterialsFrom9 Dec 2019 → 31 Dec 2021Funding: OVAM (Public Waste Agency of Flanders)
- Science education for action and engagement towards sustainabilityFrom1 Sep 2019 → 31 Aug 2022Funding: H2020-EU.5. - Science with and for society
- Living Lab : Climate-friendly Campus : Campus Sterre UGentFrom1 May 2019 → 30 Apr 2022Funding: Department Education and Training
- Capacity building of higher education on climate educationFrom1 Feb 2019 → 30 Apr 2021Funding: Department Education and Training
- Open schooling for sustainable cities and communitiesFrom1 Jan 2019 → 31 Dec 2021Funding: Other EU initiatives out of framework
- PolyUrethane Recycling towards a Smart Circular EconomyFrom1 Jan 2019 → 31 Dec 2022Funding: H2020-EU.2.1.-INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies (LEIT)
- CROWD_USG. Crowdsourcing Urban Sustainability GovernanceFrom1 Jun 2017 → 31 May 2019Funding: H2020 - Skills and Career Development (Marie Skłodowska-Curie) actions
Publications
11 - 20 of 131
- Case : Ghent Stadsacademie(2021)
Authors: Charlotte Prové, Thomas Block, Tom Van Nieuwenhove, Willem van Winden
Pages: 58 - 63 - Sustainability in anthropocenic times : a didactic proposal for a social and political approach of problems of sustainability = Sustentabilidade em tempos antropocênicos : uma proposta didática de abordagem social e política dos problemas de sustentabilidade(2020)
Authors: Thomas Block, Erik Paredis, Peter van Aert
Pages: 200 - 220 - An indivisible set of sustainability goals : SDGs in research and education at UGent(2020)
Authors: Thomas Block
- Klimaateducatie in het hoger onderwijs : een bevraging van lesgevers : onderzoeks- en ontwikkelingsproject met de steun van de Vlaamse overheid(2020)
Authors: Katrien Van Poeck, Brent Bleys, Ellen Vandenplas, Leif Olov Östman, Thomas Block
Number of pages: 1 - Een ondeelbaar geheel aan duurzaamheidsdoelen : SDG’s in onderzoek en onderwijs aan UGent(2020)
Authors: Thomas Block
- Transities door regelluwte? Het bevorderen van experimenten via regelluwe zones(2020)
Authors: Erik Paredis, Maxime Vandenberghe, Thomas Block
- Overheden in Vlaanderen in beeld 2019(2019)
Authors: Johan Ackaert, Thomas Block, Geert Bouckaert, Marleen Brans, Johan Christiaens, Joep Crompvoets, Filip De Rynck, Annie Hondeghem, Ria Janvier, Erik Paredis, et al.
- Tackling wicked problems in teaching and learning : sustainability issues as knowledge, ethical and political challenges(2019)Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability
Authors: Thomas Block, Katrien Van Poeck, Leif Olov Östman, Johan Öhman
Pages: 28 - 39 - Het politieke karakter van duurzaamheidsvraagstukken(2019)Edition: 2
Authors: Thomas Block, Erik Paredis, Jill Coene, Peter Raeymaeckers, Bernard Hubeau, Sarah Marchal, Roy Remmen, An Van Haarlem
Pages: 47 - 66 - The politics of a transition towards a circular economy in the Dutch wastewater system(2019)
Authors: Kasper Ampe, Erik Paredis, Lotte Asveld, Patricia Osseweijer, Thomas Block
Number of pages: 1