T. Verbeek
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The increasing evidence base and public concern on the health effects of exposure to high levels of air pollution, combined with stricter environmental legislation, are forcing local governments to take drastic measures. One of the policy instruments, the low emission zone (LE ...
Background: The petrochemical industry is a major source of hazardous and toxic air pollutants that are recognised to have mutagenic and carcinogenic properties. A wealth of occupational epidemiology literature exists around the petrochemical industry, with adverse haematologi ...
Integration and Isolation in the Global Petrochemical Industry
A Multiscalar Corporate Network Analysis
The global petrochemical industry has long been characterized by stable patterns of Western corporate and geographic leadership, but since the early 2000s, the global playing field has changed significantly. China has overtaken the US and Europe as the world’s largest petroche ...
Unequal residential exposure to air pollution and noise
A geospatial environmental justice analysis for Ghent, Belgium
Following the growing empirical evidence on the health effects of air pollution and noise, the fair distribution of these impacts receives increasing attention. The existing environmental inequality studies often focus on a single environmental impact, apply a limited range of ...
The relation between objective and subjective exposure to traffic noise around two suburban highway viaducts in Ghent
Lessons for urban environmental policy
A growing empirical evidence base identifies environmental noise exposure as an important health problem. While the health effects depend for a great part on personal noise sensitivity and contextual factors, in environmental policy, generic noise standards and procedures base ...
Measuring fragmentation of open space in urbanised flanders
An evaluation of four methods
The open space in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium, can hardly be seen as really open. From the Middle Ages onward this area has been known for its spread out development pattern, which has even strengthened in recent decades. Especially the residential ribbon developmen ...
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Shaping the future of infrastructure
Regeneration of Renmin viaduct neighbourhood on the basis of balancing Mobility and Livability
Socio-Spatial Segregation
Reducing the gap between neighbourhoods in Vlissingen
This is also visible in Vlissingen, a coastal cit ...