Projects
COBARCHIVES: A long-term view of Congo Basin forest resilience from fossil charcoal and living trees Ghent University
Uncertainty in climate sensitivity of tropical forests is a major constraint in predicting 21st century climate change impacts. Long-term responses are determined by resilience, which is the ability of a forest to absorb disturbances and re-organize under change (through tree mortality and recruitment) to maintain similar functioning and structure. This project aims to disentangle this resilience by quantifying short-term and long-term shifts ...
Tackling retention in nurses at early career stage: The role of professional role identity, self-leadership, resilience, and onboarding in transition-to-practice. University of Antwerp
Synaptic resilience in Tau-induced neurodegeneration Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
CLIMAS : CLIMAte change citizens engagement toolbox for dealing with Societal resilience Vrije Universiteit Brussel
impacts in the near future. The last climate change events, such as flooding in Germany and Belgium in both Continental and Atlantic
regions, heat waves and lack of water in both Mediterranean and Boreal regions, show that the policymakers, experts and stakeholders'
actions are not ...
Regions for climate change resilience through Innovation, Science and Technology KU Leuven
RESIST will strengthen the resilience and accelerate the transformation and increase adaptive capacity of 12 climate-vulnerable EU regions, implementing 4 large-scale demonstrators of resilient innovations for Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) with quintuple-helix partnerships (including 1 in a less developed region) and promote transfer of know-how and innovative solutions to 8 twin regions (of which 4 less developed regions) through both ...
Increasing children's resilience towards misinformation University of Antwerp
The ForestWard Observatory to Secure Resilience of European Forests Research Institute for Nature and Forest
(a) timely and detailed information on European forests’ vulnerability to climate change impacts,
(b) science-based knowledge to guide management using the principles of climate-smart forestry, ecosystem restoration, and biodiversity preservation (CSF & Restoration), and
(c) stakeholder engagement and public participation in decision-making processes.
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Sand exchange during engineered dune development for coastal resilience KU Leuven
The Belgian government uses another strategy for coastal management; a soft and dynamic approach were possible in response to climate change and the associated sea level rise. In this approach, natural elements and processes are used to facilitate the development of new engineered dune areas, especially at locations where traditional dike structures protect the hinterland. However, despite the value, environmental benefits and dynamic basic ...
ReCOver++: Improving resilience of buildings to overheating KU Leuven
With the ReCOver++ project, the project partners want to define an indicator that makes the resilience of a building against overheating tangible and usable for architects, engineering firms and manufacturers. After all, it is known that well-insulated and airtight buildings are vulnerable to overheating. The severity and duration of heat waves are expected to increase, resulting in more serious risks of overheating, which in turn affect the ...