Projects
BERNARDO_Linking Blue Economy with Marine Carbon Budgets through observations Ghent University
The management of carbon stocks on land has become an important instrument in the fight against climate change. Although shelf seas also constitute a significant part of the global carbon cycle, they have remained largely unaccounted for due to a lack of qualitative data, the complexity of the marine system, etc. The BERNARDO project intends to overcome this divide and will establish, for the first time, an overarching carbon budget for the ...
TREE reSPIRation: The role of woody tissues in tree carbon budgEts (TREESPIRE) Ghent University
Trees assimilate carbon dioxide (CO2) through photosynthesis and release approximately half of it
back to the atmosphere through respiration. Photosynthesis is a well-known process that has been
mechanistically described in much detail more than 35 years ago. Contrastingly, respiration remains
poorly understood, especially in woody tissues where measurements of CO2 efflux do not
necessarily reflect ...
The impact of personal health budgets and health literacy on patient empowerment, care organization and patient outcomes Ghent University
This study examines the impact of different types of personal health budgets (voucher vs. cash) on care organization and the role of health literacy in these relationships. This research studies how and to what degree this empowers patients and impacts care (community-based care, respite care and informal care) and patient outcomes (quality of life, well-being and health).
Beleidsreserve: conversion budgets Hasselt University
Energy budgets in copepod population modelling – How much model complexity do we really need in environmental risk assessment? Ghent University
In environmental risk assessment (ERA), we aim to determine (a) which concentration of a
chemical substance can harm ecosystems and (b) which concentration is likely to occur in these
ecosystems. Since the EU-regulation REACH came into force in 2016, manufacturers bear full
responsibility for the ERA of all chemicals used in their production lines.
Standardized laboratory tests are usually performed as a first step to ...
Marketization of care and social justice: a public administration – social work perspective on the meaning of personal care budgets in care for mentally disabled people. Ghent University
With this interdisciplinary project, we want to study the right to care for mentally disabled people in changing policy and administrative context. Via the combination of public administration and social work knowledge, we want to investigate the administrative and organisational conditions for the right to care in the changing system of personal care budgets in Flanders.
Nutrient budgets, flows, and loops: understanding, measuring, and fostering circularity in urban food systems KU Leuven
Cities are important nodes in a food system, even when they lack any agricultural activity. On the one hand, they concentrate consumption and drive food production; on the other, they produce big quantities of nutrient-rich effluents (organic waste, sewage sludge) that are typically wasted and not returned to the soil. Understanding and fostering the circularity of urban food systems through closing, narrowing, and slowing material and energy ...