Projects
Disaster Governance: Analyzing inconvenient realities and chances for resilience and sustainability KU Leuven
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Disaster governance
Analyzing inconvenient realities and chances for resilience and sustainability
A social-ecological systems approach to disaster governance
In many places in the world, people are increasingly exposed to disasters. A few recent disasters illustrate the global magnitude of the problem: the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the earthquake, tsunami and ...
Building Brussels. Brussels city builders and the production of space, 1794-2015 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
New spaces of capital: The Real Estate/Financial Complex in Russia and Poland KU Leuven
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The state-finance-real estate ‘triangle’ found its most spectacular expression in
2007/8 when the collapse of the U.S. mortgage market caused an economic crisis
of global scale. Yet, even though financial news is full of implicit references to the
interaction between the three dimensions, it rarely explicitly addresses it as issue in
its own right. For this reason, Aalbers (2013b:1) has proposed the ...