Projects
Development of an exergy-based measurement and evaluation tool to aim for sustainable agricultural and horticultural production in Flanders. Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
This project aims to connect all resource-related aspects of agricultural production in one comprehensive, quantitative and modular model. Via this integrated model approach, ILVO strives to contribute to a more sustainable agricultural production in a theoretical and a practical way. Sustainable agriculture is complex and comprises economically sound and sustainable production processes, ...
Identifying Paths Towards Sustainable Development Using Complexity Economics KU Leuven
Achieving a balance in the triple bottom line (TBL) of economic, environmental, and social sustainability poses a significant challenge for countries seeking to improve their industrial diversification strategies. Complexity economics offers an exceptionally valuable methodology to identify future diversification paths, but is currently too narrowly focused on either economic growth or limited areas of environmental and social sustainability. ...
Circular Economy as a Standard for Sustainable Development in the European Union? KU Leuven
Circular Economy (CE) is a strategy of the European Union for the achievement of the UN-agenda for sustainable development and the European Environmental Action Plan 2014-2020. The legal framework for this strategy consists of regulations, directives and decisions based on legal acts (COM((2016) 739, COM(2015) 614, and Decision 1386/2013/EU). The legal 'context' of the strategy consist of a vision on economic growth (art. 3 TEU), ...
Dynamic Integrated Assessment Methods for the sustainable Development of the Subsurface. University of Antwerp
Sustainable Management of Industrial Heritage as a Resource for Urban Development (CONSIDER). University of Antwerp
Empowering the development of sustainable and healthy food products KU Leuven
Renovation-innovator: development of sustainable building systems for renovation. KU Leuven
The construction sector faces an important challenge in order to achieve the European objectives concerning sustainability and energy consumption. Important priorities are energy-efficient newly built houses and thorough renovations of the existing housing stock. As the amount of newly built houses is limited compared to the existing buildings, renovation plays a major role in achieving these European objectives. Recent and ongoing research ...
Valorizing Integrated and Action-Oriented Education for Sustainable Development at School KU Leuven
Learning outcomes of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) usually reflect a change in learners' knowledge about sustainability issues, but rarely translate into increased attitudes or competences to address sustainable development effectively as well. Although there is a growing consensus about what ESD's learning outcomes should be, there is no consensus yet on how to measure them. There is also a lacune when it comes to empirics ...
The role of social and solidarity economy and social finance in sustainable development and the future of work KU Leuven
Through a review of the state of the art literature and eight case studies illuminating innovative and good practices, the study aims to investigate innovative ways of financing social and solidarity economy ventures. The study also aims to demonstrate the impact potential of these social and solidarity economy ventures in the domains of employment, social protection, inclusiveness, and sustainable development. Case studies will be selected ...