Projects
Cholera outbreaks at Lake Tanganyika induced by climate change? Meise Botanic Garden
INSIGHTS ON THE RECONFIGURATION OF FRAGILE INDUSTRIAL WATERFRONTS DEFINED BY CLIMATE CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DECLINE. The case of Coney Island Creek, New York. KU Leuven
At first sight, cities are accumulations of the tangible, the perceivable and the more static: buildings and streets, infrastructures and waterways, houses and schools and parks and supermarkets. But cities worldwide are simultaneously under constant pressure from an intangible discourse, from changes caused by shocks and stresses, which require them to respond and adapt in a resilient way. These shocks and stresses can result from ...
Linkages between Trade, Agriculture and Climate Change across Spatial and Temporal Scales KU Leuven
The Role of Agricultural Trade and Trade Policy in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation KU Leuven
Food systems face a dual challenge: they are responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and are at the same time heavily affected by climate change. Agri-food trade across borders plays an important role in this challenge as food systems are globalized, and both the GHG emission intensity of and climate change impacts on agricultural production vary internationally. The overall research objective of the PhD thesis is to ...
Impact of vegetation responses to climate change on the hydrological system in Belgium. KU Leuven
Are terrestrial carbon cycle responses to climate change governed by soil properties and microbial symbionts? University of Antwerp
Social risks new paths : climate change KU Leuven
Climate change presents society with new challenges and significant changes. For example, natural disasters often cause enormous material damage, and global warming poses serious health problems. In addition, the labour market is transforming towards a more sustainable economy, which means that some sectors (e.g. carbon intensive industries) are especially affected by this transformation. Furthermore, many measures aimed at reducing pollution ...
The impact of large dams on the climate: A global climate modelling study. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Modelling lianas as key drivers of tropical forest responses to climate change Ghent University
Tropical forests are essential components of the earth system. Yet, much uncertainty exists about the exact
role of this biome in the global carbon cycle. Our limited understanding of tropical forest functioning is
reflected in uncertain global vegetation model projections. A large source of uncertainty in these models is
their representation of ecosystem demographic processes. Interestingly, fieldwork has ...