Projects
Greening intensive farming landscapes: evaluating land use strategies in terms of biodiversity and ecosystem service provisioning and their tradeoffs with production and farmer income KU Leuven
Throughout history, European landscapes have been strongly influenced by farming practices. As a result, extensively managed farming landscapes provided a habitat to many species and nowadays, semi-natural habitats form the focus of nature conservation in Europe. During the past century, these farming landscapes became increasingly intensified, increasing food production levels throughout the region. However, the intensification of ...
Rights-based versus benevolent solidarity in European welfare states: the case of food banks and minimum income protection. University of Antwerp
Continental convergence in the social trilemma? An empirical investigation into the balance of employment, adequate income provision, and fiscal restraint across the 50 United States and enlarged European Union University of Antwerp
Membership of occupational pension schemes for employees. A comparative legal research and empirical study on the functioning of rules concerning the affiliation to an occupational pension scheme KU Leuven
For employees, an occupational pension is an increasingly important part of their income after retirement. The access to such an occupational pension plan is therefore the first and most crucial element or starting point in the accumulation of the additional income. Affiliation rules regulate which employees have access to an occupational pension scheme. These rules directly determine the participation rates. Both at national and European ...
Sabbatical Filip De Beule: Hybrid Organizations, The Next Chapter in Sustainable Business: A Comparative Institutional Study KU Leuven
Across the globe, hybrid organizations have attracted increased interest from practitioners and policymakers, but also from the academic world. Hybrid organizations, like social enterprises and cooperatives, set up in response to market failures in communities, are delivering innovative solutions to persistent social and environmental challenges. This new breed of organizations has taken a more business-oriented approach to tackling social ...
To the ResQ: combining realist synthesis and qualitative comparative analysis Developing a theory of performance-based financing. University of Antwerp
"PREVENT TOO" Reducing social and life course inequalities in preventive practices: a comparative study of the effects of health and social policies Ghent University
The main goal of this project is to gain a deeper understanding of how health and social policies can help decrease social and life course disparities in preventative measures during middle and early old age. Although prevention is crucial for healthy aging, social inequalities in preventive practices have remained consistent for decades in high-income countries. This project aims to address the reasons behind this phenomenon through an ...
There is no such thing as a free run. The determining factors of sports expenditure KU Leuven
The current doctoral thesis focusses on the determining factors of sports participants’ expenditure. From an economic point of view this is an important research subject, as the sports industry directly contributes to Western economic welfare and accounts for an increasing share of total employment and GDP. This is not surprising, as figures indicate 64.3% of the Flemish population practices sports at least once a year. The majority of this ...
The ecosystem services concept as a tool for ecological and socio-economic optimization of nature-oriented measures on agricultural land Ghent University
Intensification of agriculture in the EU has boosted yield, food security and food quality, contributing to economic development and human well-being. On the other hand, land abandonment and intensification have resulted in a strong decline of farmland biodiversity. Seventy-six per cent of the Habitat Directive habitats linked to agro-ecosystems and 70% of the Habitat Directive species linked to agro-ecosystems have an unfavourable ...