Projects
A multiscale spatio-temporal analysis of the economic geography of advanced service clusters in Brussels. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The integrated urban geography of retail and logistics in the on-demand economy. University of Antwerp
Reconstructing the changing financial geography of the European Union (1985-2007) through narratives, numbers, and networks of European financial elites. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Geography of Corporate Financialization KU Leuven
The financialization of the economy is widely discussed in the literature. There is evidence of a shift towards finance at the level of the economy at large as well as regarding the financialization of households, but the literature on the financialization of traditionally non-financial firms is less conclusive. The problem is that some understandings—and statistics—of manufacturing firms versus financial firms are becoming increasingly ...
The Geography of Corporate Financialization KU Leuven
The financialization of the economy is widely discussed in the literature. There is evidence of a shift towards finance at the level of the economy at large as well as regarding the financialization of households, but the literature on the financialization of traditionally non-financial firms is less conclusive. The problem is that our understandings—and our statistics—of manufacturing firms versus financial firms are becoming increasingly ...
The changing geography of the world city network in the context of the financial crisis Ghent University
This research project examines how the geography of the world city network is impacted by the global financial crisis. The analytical framework is based the longitudinal datasets of the GaWC research group, which present a networked description of the urbanized world economy through the location streatgies of globalized services firms.
Geography of Inshore Fisheries and Sustainability Flanders Marine Institute
A systems thinking approach in secondary geography education KU Leuven
Due to globalization the interconnectedness of people and goods has increased tremendously. Therefore, relationships on earth become increasingly complex, which creates a challenge for geography teachers to explain this complexity in a clear and appealing way, but also for students who have to understand and explicit these relationships. To understand this complexity it seems important to look at the system as a whole and the ...
Ph.D. researcher/tutor at the University of Leuven, Division of Geography KU Leuven
Tourism has been proposed as a local development tool for territories that have suffered from conflict and that want to rebuild their livelihoods, shattered by a violent past. Certainly, post-conflict areas offer a unique setting to analyse the opportunities tourism has to offer for development and conflict transformation initiatives, but also to identify and acknowledge the existing limitations in such fragile environments. Tourism, as ...