Projects
Effective and stable international climate accords. KU Leuven
The objective of this thesis is to identify the fundamental drivers of welfare effectiveness and game theoretic stability of International Environmental Agreements (IEAs), while focusing in particular on heterogeneity of regions; and analyzing the distributional effects of different climate change damage channels and mitigation policies. In the first phase we apply an analytical model combined with numerical simulation experiments in order to ...
Model-based prediction of outbreak dynamics of nephropathia epidemica using climate and vegetation data KU Leuven
Wildlife-originated zoonotic diseases in general are a major contributor to emerging infectious diseases. Fifteen emerging zoonotic or vector-borne infections with increasing impact on humans in Europe were identified during the period 2000-2006. Global climate change may be a major contributor to the spread of these zoonotic diseases. Rodent borne hantavirus infections are part of this list. Puumala virus (PUUV), hosted by the bank vole ...
FUTURE CLIMATE ACTION. THESES AND SYNTHESIS OF PRO-POOR ADAPTATION KU Leuven
Studies show that preparing pro-poor climate action in urban centres requires that lessons from the lived experience of climate varibility are combined with insights about the larger physical context of places, both significant for understanding a broad range of sources of vulnerability (Roy, Cawood, Hordijk & Hulme 2016). Approaches dealing with these distinct appreciations, nevertheless, pertain to different scales, disciplines and ...
Monitoring of societal acceptance of climate transition in the Flemish population University of Antwerp
Environmental change across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary: An integrated, multi-proxy approach KU Leuven
The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary mass extinction event is inextricably linked to the direct consequences of the Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago. Yet, it has been argued that other environmental factors, such as climate change caused by pre-impact Deccan Traps mantle degassing, and sea-level change across the K-Pg boundary, could have contributed to this mass extinction event. This dissertation aims to clarify to what extent ...
Settling with Waters. A Landscape Urbanism Investigation in the Sabana de Bogotá KU Leuven
In Bogotá, as in other Latin-American cities, housing demand is increasing daily, while the overall housing shortage remains an unresolved problem. Hence, flood prone areas along the Bogotá river are more and more under urbanization pressure, amongst others by low-cost housing projects, while these areas simultaneously are required in view of flooding, which promise to increase with the predictions of climate change. The dissertation ...
Dynamics of natural hazards and disasters in tropical Africa Vrije Universiteit Brussel
making due to the increasing impacts of climate change and natural hazards. In
parallel, land use changes due to the deforestation and the expansion of urban
areas and human infrastructures in general lead to more disasters, both in space
and time. In the present work, we propose to support a PhD research dedicated
to the study of the ...
Tracing and Integrated Modelling of Natural and Anthropogenic Effects on Hydrosystems: towards sustainable solutions - TIMOTHY 2 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The general objective is to develop, validate and apply tools to describe and evaluate the past (1970 for ...