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Researcher
Gerard Govers
- Disciplines:Atmospheric sciences, Physical geography and environmental geoscience, Atmospheric sciences, challenges and pollution, Geomatic engineering, Geophysics, Environmental science and management, Soil sciences, challenges and pollution, Urban and regional design, development and planning, Scientific computing, Tourism, Education curriculum, Education systems, Economic geography, Human geography, Recreation, leisure and tourism geography, Urban and regional geography, Other social and economic geography, Demography, Policy and administration
Affiliations
- Geography and Tourism (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2020 → Today - Division of Geography and Tourism (Division)
Member
From1 Oct 1999 → 31 Jul 2020
Projects
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- Leuven 2030 Urban LabFrom1 Oct 2023 → 31 Dec 2024Funding: Cities and Municipalities
- Looking through the clouds or fly below? Developing a flexible drone platform for detection, monitoring and mapping at KU LeuvenFrom1 Jan 2021 → 31 Dec 2022Funding: BOF - scientific equipment program
- On the rice: a holistic approach to identify countries with an imminent imbalance between rice supply and demand in AfricaFrom1 Nov 2019 → 1 Nov 2023Funding: FWO fellowships
- SWAMP:Schistosomiasis in West-Uganda: Analyse and Mapping of PrevalenceFrom1 Apr 2019 → 31 Dec 2019Funding: VLIR-UOS North/South Cooperation Program (NSS)
- Implementation of an ESERO (European space education resource office) in BelgiumFrom1 Jan 2019 → 31 Dec 2019Funding: Private funding of national origin - undefined
- Energy monitoring on student roomsFrom1 May 2018 → 30 Jun 2020Funding: Provinces
- Reconstructing environmental change in the Lake Alaotra region, MadagascarFrom8 Jan 2018 → 25 Apr 2023Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Coastal wetland response to sea level rise: an integrative marsh – mangrove study on soil elevation and soil carbon responseFrom1 Jan 2018 → 31 Dec 2021Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- The role of lavaka in the landscapes of Madagascar: a process-based approach.From2 Oct 2017 → 31 Dec 2022Funding: FWO fellowships
- Quantifying the impact of climate and tectonic gradients on landscape evolution across timescales: Explicit integration of cosmogenic radio nuclide and thermochronometric data in numerical landscape evolution models.From1 Oct 2017 → 18 Jun 2021Funding: FWO fellowships
Publications
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- The limited effect of deforestation on stabilized subsoil organic carbon in a subtropical catchment(2024)
Authors: Gerard Govers
Pages: 349 - 365 - Mobilization rates of landslides in a changing tropical environment: 60-year record over a large region of the East African Rift(2024)
Authors: Gerard Govers, Matthias Vanmaercke
- African food system and biodiversity mainly affected by urbanization via dietary shifts(2024)
Authors: Koen De Vos, Charlotte Janssens, Lisa-Marie Hemerijckx, Anton Van Rompaey, Miet Maertens, Gerard Govers
Pages: 869 - 878 - On the Rice: a holistic approach to identify imminent issues in the African Rice System(2023)
Authors: Koen De Vos, Gerard Govers, Liesbet Jacobs, Benjamin Campforts, Miet Maertens
- The slow downwearing of Madagascar: Inferring patterns and controls on long-term basin-averaged erosion rates from in situ 10Be at the catchment and regional level(2023)
Authors: Liesa Brosens, Liesbet Jacobs, Vao Fenotiana Razanamahandry, Gerard Govers
Pages: 1765 - 1782 - Rice availability and stability in Africa under future socio-economic development and climatic change(2023)
Authors: Koen De Vos, Charlotte Janssens, Liesbet Jacobs, Miet Maertens, Gerard Govers
- Reconstructing environmental change in the Lake Alaotra region, Madagascar(2023)
Authors: Vao Fenotiana Razanamahandry, Steven Bouillon, Gerard Govers
- Coastal wetland adaptability to sea level rise: The neglected role of semi-diurnal vs. diurnal tides(2023)
Authors: Gerard Govers
Pages: 340 - 349 - Vegetation changes and sediment dynamics in the Lake Alaotra region, central Madagascar(2023)
Authors: Nils Broothaerts, Vao Fenotiana Razanamahandry, Liesa Brosens, Liesbet Jacobs, Gert Verstraeten, Steven Bouillon, Gerard Govers
Pages: 459 - 470 - Potential and limitations of crowdsourced data for high-resolution rice mapping in Madagascar: The importance of representation(2023)
Authors: Koen De Vos, Kristof Van Tricht, Gerard Govers