Projects
Circular Economy Transition in Flanders. An Urban Landscape Design Contribution. KU Leuven
Responding to threatening resource scarcity Flemish policy documents and public tenders increasingly mention ‘circular economy’, turning waste into resources, as a goal. Nevertheless, a clear consensus about what exactly constitutes this circular economy lacks. Going to the core of the issue, resource scarcity will not be solved with endless recycling if (population and therefore) consumption keeps growing. Instead consumption needs to ...
The Ecology of Living in Small Fragments: Resource availability and feeding ecology of GHLTs groups in small fragments and the effects of matrix connectivity, hunting pressure and climate change on their long-term changes for persistence. Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp
Design for Dialogue: Interpolating civic engagement, ecology and urban design in Brussels KU Leuven
Brussels, as many cities world-wide, faces a double challenge. On the one hand, the demand for housing and office space results in a continuous increase in built-up area. On the other hand, the Brussels Capital Region needs more open space for recreation and environmental needs, such as water management and biodiversity. This duality recently came to the fore in the debate about the so-called Friche Josaphat, a wasteland on a former ...
The Socio-ecological Turn in Urbanism. Historicizing Interpolations between Ecology, Urban design and Participation in Brussels KU Leuven
Brussels, as many cities world-wide, faces a double challenge. On the one hand, the demand for housing and office space results in a continuous increase in built-up area. On the other hand, the Brussels Capital Region needs more open space for recreation and environmental needs, such as water management and biodiversity. This duality recently came to the fore in the debate about the so-called Friche Josaphat, a wasteland on a former ...
The Sustainable Turn in Urbanism. Past and Future Interactions between Ecology, Urban Design and Participation in Brussels KU Leuven
Incidence and ecology of rust disease (Hemileia vastatrix) on wild Coffea arabica in moist Ethiopian mountain forests KU Leuven
Coffea arabica L. (Family Rubiaceae) remains as a backbone of Ethiopian economy and plays an important and significant role in the country’s economy and employment opportunity and accounted for 5 and 25 %, respectively. Ethiopia, the birthplace of Coffea arabica has great coffee genetic diversity in Southwestern part of the country in the Afromontane forests, which will be a potential for identifying wild Coffea arabica resistant to Coffee ...
The life and thought of northern prehistoric hunter-gatherers: ethnographical and ethnoarchaeological theory and analysis of the behavioral and material expression of the relationship between ideology and ecology Ghent University
The research proposal consists of the application of the new anthropological paradigm to the study of northern European prehistoric hunter-gatherers with specific focus on the relationship between ecology - the reality of the world in which human beings must survive - and ideology - the human cognition and perception of that world. The new anthropological paradigm sees ecology and ideology as dynamic and dialectic entities, whose relationship ...