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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, Demography, Policy and administration, Economic geography, Human geography, Recreation, leisure and tourism geography, Urban and regional geography, Other social and economic geography
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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- An integrated approach for assessing environmental changes in soil-covered landscapes: the case of Madagascar.From1 Oct 2017 → 30 Sep 2021Funding: Fund Recuperation Fiscal Exemption, BOF - Concerted Research Project from 1994
- Landslides in a Changing Tropical Environment: The North Tanganyika-Kivu Rift Region, AfricaFrom28 Sep 2017 → 22 Oct 2021Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- The fate of erosion displaced soil organic carbon in aquatic systemsFrom25 Sep 2017 → 29 Sep 2022Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Research of environmental changes in Central Africa based on historical photographs and archivesFrom15 Dec 2016 → 15 Mar 2022Funding: BRAIN-be(Belgian Research Action through Interdisciplinary Networks)
- Landslide susceptibility, mobilization rates and link with sediment yield at regional to global scaleFrom1 Oct 2014 → 24 Apr 2019Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- Assessing the controls on long-term preservation of organic carbon in soils: a field study in intertidal landscapes and a model assessmentFrom1 May 2014 → 19 Jun 2018Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- Impacts of land use and cover change on water fluxes and soil functioning in Southern BrazilFrom1 Oct 2013 → 3 Jul 2019Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer coupled with High Pressure Liquid Chromatography HPLC-ICP-MSFrom26 Apr 2012 → 25 Oct 2018Funding: Hercules - Small and Medium size research infrastructure
- The importance of flood events and floodplain processes for the dynamics of organic carbon transport and processing in large tropical rivers systems.From1 Jan 2012 → 31 Dec 2017Funding: FWO research project
- The importance of flood events and floodplain processes for the dynamics of organic carbon transport and processing in large tropical rivers systems.From1 Oct 2011 → 30 Sep 2016Funding: BOF - Concerted Research Project from 1994
Publications
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- 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
- Temperature effect on erosion-induced disturbances to soil organic carbon cycling(2023)
Authors: Gerard Govers
Pages: 174 - + - Food and nutrition security: challenges for farming, procurement, and consumption(2023)
Authors: Tessa Avermaete, Wannes Keulemans, Olivier Honnay, Gerard Govers, Barbara De Coninck
Pages: 1100 - 1110Number of pages: 10 - Experimental evidence that rill-bed morphology is governed by emergent nonlinear spatial dynamics(2022)
Authors: Gerard Govers