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Who sponsors climate change? An investigation into the representation and reception of climate change in news media. University of Antwerp

Pieter Maeseele
Media, policy and culture
The objective is to further expand the research line on media and science -which was started in my doctoral research-, in the immediate future (i) by broadening it to the representation of climate change in the media, and (ii) by deepening it to include a reception analysis of climate change in the media. In the near future, many additional avenues for research come forward. This expansion benefits from my earlier work in two important ways: (i) ...

Review editor for Chapter 5 "Drivers, Trends and Mitigation" and "glossary" of the contribution of WG III (Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change) at the fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. University of Antwerp

Aviel Verbruggen
Engineering Management
This project represents a formal service agreement between UA and on the other hand Belspo. UA provides Belspo research results mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions as stipulated in this contract.

Climate Impiety: Beyond Post-Apocalyptic Climate Change Fiction Ghent University

Stef Craps
Department of Literary Studies

Most climate change literature takes the form of post-apocalyptic, dystopian novels. This form, however, simplifies and compresses the phenomenon to make it dramatic and containable on a human scale. Focusing on climate literature that deviates from the norm, this project will explore alternative narrative strategies that might be more apt to represent the vast dimensions and complexity of climate change.

Climate & Biodiversity Initiative: Climate change Adaptation & Mitigation with BIOdiverse forest plantations (CAMBIO) Ghent University

Lander Baeten
Department of Environment

This project studies how afforestation may form a major nature-based solution for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Building on a global network of forest biodiversity experiments (TreeDivNet), it will determine which tree species associations sequester more carbon, while coping with climate variability such as droughts.

Longyearbyen, Svalbard: Identity in Change / Mapping the Impact of Anthropogenic Climate Change on the Actor-Network of the Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard KU Leuven

Ortwijn de Graef
English Literature, Leuven

Abstract Identity in Change focuses on the impacts of climate change in the Arctic, and the range of reactions to it in the diverse population of Longyearbyen, Svalbard. The project will map a time-specific snapshot of the physical and social actor-network that constitutes the complex community of Longyearbyen situated 1298 kms north of the Arctic Circle on the archipelago of Svalbard. Identity in Change will explore issues of perception and ...

Effects of climate change and land use change on the near surface wind characteristics in Belgium, using two downscaling approaches. KU Leuven

Nicole Van Lipzig
Division of Geography and Tourism
As the climate system is changing and fossil resources are diminishing, wind has emerged as an important source of renewable energy. However the amount of energy in the wind is sensitive to changes in wind speed. Projections of future large-scale circulations over Europe indicate potential changes, but it is still unknown if/how these changes might affect the wind energy availability over Europe. Estimations of changes in wind energy ...

Climate change and changes in Spatial structures in Flanders (CcASPAR). University of Antwerp

Patrick Meire
Ecosystem Management
Abstraction of the success of mitigating short term measures, climate change will anyhow influence the way in which Flemish society organises its use of land and space. Instead of closing our eyes, it is time to develop strategies to anticipate to possible effects of climate change, or ¿ put in other words ¿ to assess new investments in spatial development and to investigate how to make them climate proof so they can withstand the effects of ...

Impact of vegetation responses to climate change on the hydrological system in Belgium. KU Leuven

Dirk Raes
Hydraulics Section, Division of Soil and Water Management
On a global scale, increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations ([CO2]) and the associated process of global warming cause climatic changes. They include increased air temperatures, altered rainfall patterns and a higher occurrence of extreme weather episodes. In Belgium, expected climaticchanges include higher temperatures year round, wetter winters and drier summers. Agricultural production and its available water resources arehighly vulnerable ...

Forest products: contribution to carbon storage and climate change mitigation KU Leuven

Wouter Achten, Bart Muys
Division of Forest, Nature and Landscape, Division of Bioeconomics

Climate change is one of the biggest threats for our earth. Mitigation of climate change is thus an urgent challenge our society needs to take up. Many benefits are provided by forests, and one is their potential to mitigate climate change. This mitigating effect can be achieved in many ways, for example increasing the stock of carbon in managed forests or replacing more emission-intensive goods with wood-based products. To maximize the ...