Projects
Upgrading Informal Settlements by the Co-production of Inclusive Public Spaces: urban design strategies for sustainable and resilient development in informal neighborhoods in Guayaquil, Ecuador. KU Leuven
This project tackles the challenge of triggering sustainable and resilient development through the participative design of public spaces in low-income informal neighborhoods that were developed under unsustainable urbanization processes. Academics and professionals see inclusive public space as paramount for the construction of sustainable and resilient communities especially in informal settlements. Guayaquil, a city with the highest poverty ...
Transit Oriented Development (TOD) for Inclusive and Sustainable Rural-Urban Regions (TOD-IS-RUR). University of Antwerp
PROmoting Sustainable development and regional attractiveness through PERi-urban Areas Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
How can the ecosystem services of open space, such as food production and biodiversity, be successfully safeguarded? How can the attractiveness of a region - its natural heritage - be strengthened? How can the (qualitative) open space in peri-urban areas (which is under pressure from urban expansion) be protected, while at the same time offering opportunities for a sustainable regional ...
Sustainable rural development through socially innovative and community-based conservation in the Chaparri Reserve Region KU Leuven
This project seeks to trigger the sustainable development potential of rural areas with high poverty levels and under the social, economic and environmental threats of extractive industries in the Global South. It aims to stimulate sustainable rural development in the North of Peru through socially innovative and community-based conservation in the Chaparri Reserve region. Complementary academic partners and stakeholders from the public, ...
Promoting Multi-Stakeholder Contributions to International Cooperation on Sustainable Solutions for Aquaculture Development in South-East Asia Ghent University
EURASTIP will evaluate and prepare for the launch of an international multi-stakeholder platform (MSP), so as to provide a new mechanism to create and reinforce international cooperation on sustainable aquaculture between Europe and South-East Asia and will focus on actions that will provide mutual benefit to both regions. EURASTIP, headed by the European Aquaculture Technology and Innovation Platform (EATiP) will create and support 3 ...