Projects
Development of a decision support system for the assessment and mitigation of the impact of global climate change and seawater level rise on water supply for local residents in coastal areas of Vietnam Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Tracing the contours of constitutionalism in climate litigation: A comparative perspective from the Global North and the Global South KU Leuven
THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF US CLIMATE POLICY CONTESTATION: SUBNATIONAL, NATIONAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES KU Leuven
Politicisation of United States climate policy has grown over past decades. Both state and non-state actors contest climate policy, its scientific foundations and its social consequences. The social dimension of climate policy is used by both proponents and opponents of ambitious climate policy. Many proponents of ambitious US climate policy advocate climate justice, highlighting that vulnerable societal groups need to be supported ...
Global climate change hotspots in terms of multi-risk assessment of hydro-climatic hazards KU Leuven
The natural hazards can have devastating consequences on the society in terms of human health and mortality and also on the ecosystem and the economy. In the last decade, five billion people have been affected by natural disasters resulting in approximately $1 trillion of economic losses around the world. The hydro-climatic natural hazards are becoming more dangerous as a result of climate change and as population and infrastructure continue ...
The circulation and transformation of global climate change in public discourse: an investigation into frame sponsorship, news media representation and audience reception University of Antwerp
Impact of Global climate change and desertification on the environment and society in Southern Central Vietnam-Case Study in Binh Thuan Province. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In the collection of four ...
How can the protection of children's rights be enhanced by tax nudging, in the light of global climate change? Hasselt University
An anthropology of global climate urgency KU Leuven
The overarching objective of this DN is to respond to a growing urgency expressed by European research councils and funding
agencies, as well as by governments, publics and students, that the social sciences should contribute to our understanding of and
engagement with climate change. We propose that the need for urgent action demands that social science attends to the notion of
'urgency' itself. We want to train ...