Projects
Polycentric development as an emergent urban form KU Leuven
Breeding forage and grain legumes to increase EU's and China's protein self-sufficiency Ghent University
EUCLEG aims to reduce Europe and China’ dependency on protein imports by developing efficient breeding strategies for the legume crops of major economic importance in human food and animal feed. The objective is to improve diversification, crop productivity, yield stability and protein quality of both forage (alfalfa and red clover) and grain (pea, faba bean and soybean) legumes. Using diverse and extensive genetic resources and taking ...
Enteric fever in Cambodia: A multi-disciplinary study KU Leuven
Enteric fever is a systemic infection caused by the bacteria Salmonella Typhi or Salmonella Paratyphi A. Humans are the only host and transmission occurs through food and water contaminated by stool from patients or chronic carriers. Most cases globally are caused by Salmonella Typhi. However, the proportion of Salmonella Paratyphi A infections has been increasing during the last 20 years for reasons that ...
Entangled in Words: Lamp Records and the Development of Chan Buddhist Hagiographic Literature in Tang-Song Transition (ca. 750–1050) China Ghent University
This project aims to investigate the development of Chan Buddhist hagiographic literature from mid-Tang (ca. 750) to early Northern Song (960–1127) China, concentrating on the emergence of the so-called “lamp records” (denglu 燈錄) which were formative in establishing Chan/Zen Buddhism as an integrated tradition. The study examines lamp records as a literary genre through the two earliest extant witnesses: the locally produced Zutang ji 祖堂集 ...
CLANCY - Monitoring and Management of the Chinese Mittencrab University of Antwerp
The effects of policy learning from non-Chinese greenhouse gas emissions trading experiences and policies on China's endeavour to establish a national emissions trading system KU Leuven
This doctoral research project deals with the questions of ‘why’ and ‘how’ policies spread around the world, and, in particular with the questions whether, why and how countries like China learn from policy experiences of other countries. Learning from other countries’ policy experiences is identified as a causal mechanism (intervening variable) that connects policy experiences around the world (i.e. the cause or independent variable) and ...
An economic, geographical and institutional analysis of the development of the Chinese container port system. University of Antwerp
An economic, geographical and institutional analysis of the development of the Chinese container port system. University of Antwerp
Comparing Chinese Cities Within Intercity Networks: Multiple Scales, Varied Actors and Local Context KU Leuven
Similarity assessment allows for a better understanding of the generalities and particularities of cities. To explore the functional convergence and divergence of cities through analysing their similarities, previous literature has long identified cities as ensembles of internal properties, including amenities, population, corporations and industries. However, less attention has been paid to the similarity of the external linkages of cities ...