Projects
The black box of preferences for political decision-making processes: who want to innovate within democracies and why? KU Leuven
Democratic innovations have been largely proposed as procedures with which address the democratic legitimacy deficit in advanced democracies. However, little is known empirically about the societal demand for these procedures. One of the objectives of this thesis is to open the black box of citizens’ process preferences in order to acquire knowledge on who and why some citizens demand participatory and deliberative reforms in order to improve ...
Strategic Research Programme: Evaluating Democratic Governance in Europe (EDGE) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Discourse analysis in the European Parliament. An investigation and comparison of Dutch and Polish Parliamentarians' interventions. KU Leuven
The objective of this research project is to investigate and analyse Polish and Dutch Members' of the European Parliament (MEP) interventions, explore the use of their argumentation methods and make a comparative analysis. In the light of Parliamentarians' cultural and linguistic traditions and conventions, the project will compare and analyse the rhetoric from different perspectives such as i.a.: use of language levels, value-laden or ...
Greenways as a New Planning Strategy in the Pearl River Delta, China KU Leuven
The term of greenway is a derivation from greenbelt and parkway, which refer to linear green open spaces that serve for ecological, recreational, cultural, aesthetic, or other purposes compatible with the concept of sustainable land use. In the 1990s, the greenway movement in the world arose as a response, driven by basic human needs, to urbanization. In the diverse contexts, greenways have been an adaptive ...
The influence of the multi-level environment and globalization on (autonomous) public sector organizations. University of Antwerp
Disaster Governance: Analyzing inconvenient realities and chances for resilience and sustainability KU Leuven
English summary
Disaster governance
Analyzing inconvenient realities and chances for resilience and sustainability
A social-ecological systems approach to disaster governance
In many places in the world, people are increasingly exposed to disasters. A few recent disasters illustrate the global magnitude of the problem: the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the earthquake, tsunami and ...