Projects
Urban Mining for Circular Urban Renewal: a bottom-up life cycle assessment framework KU Leuven
Resource efficiency is one of the key pillars in the European Green Deal. While the circular economy action plan will guide the transition of all sectors, the resource-intensive construction sector will be a key focus. An important strategy in this context is using the existing stock to mine construction materials. Detailed bottom-up information is required to enhance resource efficiency through urban mining of the existing building stock. It ...
BRIDGE 2019: SUBLIMUS – Becoming modern green urban alchemists: Gold and silver mining from Brussels urban sewage Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Technoceramics, Mining the Urban Landscape. Hasselt University
Landlessness and Collective Violent REsistance to Mining Induced Displacement and Resettlement (MIDR) in Developing Countries: The Case of Anti-Phulbari Coal Mining Movement in Bangladesh Ghent University
This research project explores the role of landless people in collective resistance to Mining-Induced Displacement and Resettlement (MIDR)caused by the Phulbari Coal Mining project (Bangladesh). It explores the relationship between landlessness, forced displacement, exclusion, and collective resistance to fill a gap in MIDR scholarship, which has almost exclusively paid attention to effects of MIDR on people with formal land-rights.
Anticipating the Post-Mining Landscapes of Cajamarca, North Andes of Peru. The Agency of Design in Mining (Closure) KU Leuven
Until there is a feasible alternative, the construction of urban environments will continue to rely on the provision of metals. Supported by international financial institutions and neoliberal mining codes, mining investments in the South American Andes play a crucial role in quenching the worldwide thirst for metals. Mining industries incessantly work to improve productivity in order to stay ahead of growth. As cities around the world ...
Modelling agrarian and mining settlements in the Punic West Mediterranean. A comparison of rural Sardinia and Andalusia Ghent University
Environmental hazards associated with mining activities in the tropics (EDITOR). University of Antwerp
Land entrepreneurship and the challenges of housing development: contribution of public and private actors in rapid urban development in the peri-urban areas of Lubumbashi Hasselt University
Circular Economy Transition in Flanders. An Urban Landscape Design Contribution. KU Leuven
Responding to threatening resource scarcity Flemish policy documents and public tenders increasingly mention ‘circular economy’, turning waste into resources, as a goal. Nevertheless, a clear consensus about what exactly constitutes this circular economy lacks. Going to the core of the issue, resource scarcity will not be solved with endless recycling if (population and therefore) consumption keeps growing. Instead consumption needs to ...