Projects
Animal Cognition in Urban Environments: The effect of diet and the gut microbiome Ghent University
Natural habitats are disappearing at record speeds, and our world is becoming increasingly urbanised. Recently, researchers started exploring how cognitive abilities (the mechanisms by which animals acquire, process, store and act on information from the environment) may allow animals to adapt to urban environments. Many of these studies revealed cognitive differences between
urban and non-urban dwelling animals and linked these to ...
Urban agriculture as an alternative to classic green structures in an urbanized environment: economic and spatial analysis. University of Antwerp
The importance of airborne bacterial endotoxins in an urban environment. University of Antwerp
Addressing health governance in challenging urban environments: exploring the conditions for the application of a participatory accountability tool in Kinshasa (Health Governance Kinshasa). University of Antwerp
Addressing Health governance in challenging urban environments: exploring the conditions for the application of a participatory accountability tool in Kinshasa Institute of Tropical Medicine
Our objective is to better understand under what conditions this tool and the underlying approach can be adopted and be made to work in Kinshasa ...
Forecasting and management of extreme rainfall induced risks in the urban environment. KU Leuven
A. Context
Extreme local rain storms may induce severe floods and related socio-economic impacts on the urban environment (Belgian cities). While floods along rivers have been studied already extensively, quantification, forecasting, control and management of inundations along sewer systems and urban rivers have to face particular difficulties. They need fine-scale (local, short duration) rainfall estimation and nowcasting (= short-term ...