Projects
Luciana Travassos: LIAS fellow for May 2022 project on societal aspects of climate change KU Leuven
Tools for Togetherness. Prospection, reflection and exploration of public and collective spaces in Flanders. KU Leuven
Large-scale Geomorphology in the Anthropocene. KU Leuven
- Quantifying and understanding geomorphic processes (e.g. catchment sediment export, gully erosion, landsliding) at regional, continental and global scales through the integration and analysis of legacy data, modeling and fieldwork.
- Better understanding land degradation and hydro-geomorphic hazards, their causes, interactions and impacts with a focus on the Global South.
- Contributing to land and catchment management ...
Social justice in local contexts. HOGENT
HELICITY: Evolution of correlated traits in response to city life: helicid snails as windows on the consequences of urban history Ghent University
Urbanization is one of the most dramatic land-use changes caused by humans, combining habitat fragmentation and loss, pollutions and increased temperature. While it causes numerous population declines in many species, others persist or even thrive in cities, possibly through evolutionary changes. In this project, I will study how urbanization shapes multivariate phenotypic evolution in such an organism, including not only life-history ...
Social change in Southeast Europe after the Second World War: The view from the periphery Ghent University
The political economies of the states of Southeast Europe after the Second World War were shaped by the doctrine of development. In the long term and from a global perspective, development politics failed to advance the global position of the states of the region and to undo inequality within the region. Notwithstanding these failures, the social and spatial dynamics generated by the doctrine of development are essential to explain some ...
Rethinking the paradigm of the dispersed city. Insights in the strategic role of nodes in the evolution of the next urban question KU Leuven
Culture, social structure, and the self: Explorations into varieties of cultural fit in self-construal, changes therein, and the predictors and outcomes thereof KU Leuven
People's self-construals—how individuals define themselves and interact with others—demonstrate systematic cultural differences (Markus & Kitayama, 1991; Singelis, 1994; Vignoles et al., 2016). Such differences stem not only from ethnic-cultural factors but are also influenced by social structures (e.g., social stratification, labour relations, urbanisation, gender roles, etc.), resulting in distinct self patterns that prevail among ...