Projects
A study on the welfare effects of multiple externality interactions on housing equilibrium prices. KU Leuven
This research explores whether multiple interacting externalities are additive or subadditive in the perception of the victims. Although some authors already attempted to map the welfare effects of multiple externalities, the type and magnitude between different externalities remains poorly understood. The ultimate goal of this project is therefore to disentangle complex interaction effects of environmental externalities both theoretically as ...
Private standards in global food chains: an analysis of the trade and welfare effects in the Peruvian asparagus sector. KU Leuven
Standards are increasingly governing international food production and trade. While public standards are set by public authorities, private standards are set by private companies and non-state actors. Private food standards started to emerge at the end of the 1990s, mainly in response to consumer concerns in high-income countries about food safety and quality, and later expanded to address environmental and ethical concerns. Due to the ...
Labour market position and mobility of migrants, and its impact on the welfare state. University of Antwerp
Sustainable Sourcing of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables from Senegal KU Leuven
Rural development can be a major welfare catalyst for rural Sub-Saharan African regions, as more than 80% of the poor live in rural areas and derive their livelihoods from a limited range of (on-farm) activities. Rural development – an umbrella term for all activities, programs and strategies that target to improve the livelihoods of rural households – comprises both agricultural and non-agricultural development, and can be triggered through ...
Exploring the links between energy and food security and impacts on sustainable livelihoods in developing countries KU Leuven
The provision of safe and nutritious food fundamentally depends on
energy access in the form of cooking fuel, lighting and heating.
Universal access to clean energy remains one of the world’s major
challenges today. In addition to its direct effects on food security,
poor households in rural areas rely on traditional and solid fuels as
primary energy sources for cooking and lighting, which are likely to
have ...
Microbial management in RAS for sustainable aquaculture production Ghent University
In RASbiome, we aim at improving the sustainability of fish production in freshwater recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS). We will investigate microbiomes in RAS in relation to chemical and microbial water quality in commercial RAS, and implement two fundamentally distinct biological water treatment strategies to improve the management of nitrogen compounds in RAS. The first strategy involves anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria ...
The design of sustainable collaborations between hospitals Ghent University
When setting up a collaborative venture, hospitals typically fail to significantly improve their overall performance due to lack of integration of clinical services and resource management. In this study, we develop a novel collaborative mechanism via empirical and computational research to facilitate negotiation between two hospital entities in search for a game-theoretic Nash equilibrium. This mechanism design enables a sustainable ...
Development of an integrated decision support tool for managing dairy cows using a data and biology accommodating approach KU Leuven
With more than 170 million tons of milk produced by dairy cows in 2017, the dairy sector was the second most important agricultural sector of the EU. It is, however, not exempt from emerging disruption as it faces a confluence of challenges such as the rapidly increasing global demand for dairy products, the volatility of global dairy markets and the growing concern over the impact of ruminant production on climate change, water quality and ...
Public support for climate change mitigation and eco-social policies in Europe: the role of social justice considerations in legitimising and promoting the transition to low-carbon societies KU Leuven
In the face of accelerating global warming and attendant natural disasters, it seems that governments all over the world eventually have to take measures mitigating the most adverse consequences of climate change. However, such measures are likely to be opposed if they do not reflect public attitudes. To better understand attitudes towards climate change mitigation policies (CMP), and in particular what influences support of them, scholars ...