Projects
Essays in development economics KU Leuven
This dissertation collects four essays that study how the environment in which people reside shapes their well-being and economic opportunities. Starting from the observation that, in spite of impressive growth accelerations in some resource-rich developing countries, human development indicators are lagging behind, the first two essays investigate how natural resource wealth affects government prioritization of human capital building. The ...
Urbanism and Social Change. Learning from Forgotten Histories of City Making KU Leuven
The city of Rotterdam exemplifies the Dutch belief in the malleability of urban society. City-making is then primarily associated with a pro-active policy-making approach that is translated into practice through the realization of ambitious urban development projects. But the dominant image of Rotterdam as a ‘malleable city’ not only reveals how urban society is being planned and organized. It conceals at the same time other histories of ...
Scientific personae in cultural encounters in twentieth century Europe (SPICE). KU Leuven
The effects of exposure to sexualizing media on adolescents sexual maturation. KU Leuven
Child soldiers and the EU policy on children and armed conflict. University of Antwerp
Fostering Human Rights Among European (external and internal) Policies. KU Leuven
FRAME, a 4-year multidisciplinary project, represents a consortium of 19 internationally recognized and globally networked human rights institutes from across Europe and strategic regions around the world. Through FRAME, more than 100 leading researchers and practitioners - with a strong gender balance - aim to provide the necessary building blocks for a coherent EU human rights policy comprised of:
- a sound knowledge base taking ...
Strenghtening the cooperation in European research on sustainable exploitation of marine resources in the marine food chains Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
The FP7 ERAnet project groups 25 research facilitating institutions with the objective of structuring the European marine research more efficiently. These institutions are spread over many European countries and supported by scientific partners such as ILVO. The project has a broad focus. It includes future research to strengthen the sustainable exploitation of marine sources by fisheries, ...
WELL TRANS 1: welfare during transport of poultry Ghent University
The research are the following: - What combination of parameters are suitable to be included in an extended or downsized protocol, to evaluate the well being of broiler chickens during transport to the slaughterhouse? - How will the results of these individual parameters can be integrated into an overall score for the animal-friendliness of transportation? - How these protocols can be downsized to optimally scale application in practice to ...
WELL TRANS 1: welfare during transport of poultry Ghent University
The research are the following: - What combination of parameters are suitable to be included in an extended or downsized protocol to evaluate the welfare of broiler chickens during transport to the slaughterhouse? - How will the results of these individual parameters can be integrated into an overall score for the animal-friendliness of transportation? - How these protocols can be downsized to optimally scale application in practice to ...