Projects
Diversity and Community Ghent University
The era of diversity is now behind us. Our new reality is characterized by superdiversity, especially in urban areas. Superdiversity also challenges us to rethink schemes and practices of solidarity. Where the welfare state was based on explicit and implicit notions of shared community and citizenship, superdiversity now confronts us with the question what we still (want to) share? The project DIEGEM is based on action research together with ...
House of Sustainable Transitions Vrije Universiteit Brussel
towards a more sustainable and just society. It is the one-stop shop for sustainability transitions where the challenge
of climate change and biodiversity can be tackled from a systemic and integrated perspective, where sustainability
encompasses environmental as well as social and economic aspects. With ...
BDU-IUC Phase II: VLIR-UOS IUC partnership project with Bahir Dar University (BDU) Ghent University
The Lake Tana Development Corridor (LTDC) in Ethiopia is a vital economic development area around Lake Tana, with agriculture and fisheries, tourism, trade and industry, and transport being the major economic activities. Among the most pressing issues are poor food security, persistent difficulties with water availability and quality and a lack of environmental sustainability and good governance in regional development. Poverty presents a ...
Destination monitor Flanders KU Leuven
The destination barometer is part of the measurement strategy on the positive power of tourism and aims to identify the extent to which we can consider a destination a 'thriving destination'. Specifically, we do this by measuring and evaluating the state of the destination. The destination barometer maps historical data and therefore helps to assess the extent to which the tourist destination is improving over time and following a more ...
Remote sensing of rainfall in Rwanda and Uganda using microwave links from cellular communication networks. Ghent University
Human-induced climate change intensifies precipitation and prolongs extensive droughts in the tropics. This has important repercussions for agriculture, water resource management and natural hazard monitoring. Consequently, accurate rainfall observations are becoming more important. This project wants to implement a novel technique using microwave links from telecommunication networks to generate countrywide, accurate rainfall maps for Rwanda ...
UNLEASHING THE POTENTIAL OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN EUROPE KU Leuven
UPPER aims at spearheading a Public Transport revolution that will strengthen the role of PT as the flagship of sustainability and innovation of mobility in cities, leading the transition towards a zero emission mobility which will become the cornerstone of climate neutrality by 2030, in line with the goal of Cities Mission and the priorities of the Green Deal. UPPER will put the Public Transport at the centre of the mobility ecosystem and ...
Research and development project on the spatial planning issue in the Rupel region in the context of developments within Flanders Technology & Innovation University of Antwerp
The locality of transnational solidarity within the European Union (LOTSEU) Ghent University
This research project investigates local support for European Union (EU) wide solidarity policies among the citizenry. It combines earlier approaches taken in the field of European solidarity research with those of cleavage theory and political geography to shed light over the impact of small-scale contextual factors on public preferences towards an EU-wide social layer. To pursue this scientific endeavor I will, firstly, exploit a natural ...
Natural Wonders: Indigenous Landscapes and the Building of Hinduism in Early Southeast Asia Ghent University
This study examines the structural remains, Sanskrit inscriptions, and iconographic programs of three monumental temple complexes from Vietnam, Laos, and Java between the fifth and the tenth centuries CE, to show how centuries of accretional building practices produced architectures designed to colonize powerful places and transform indigenous sacred geographies into political landscapes dedicated to Hindu deities. In early Southeast Asia, ...