Matthieu Kervyn
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 224680 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Matthieu Kervyn |
| PRENOMES | Matthieu |
| SOBRENOME | Kervyn |
| ASSINATURA | KERVYN M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4966-3468 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Farmers’ social networks and adoption of disaster risk reduction measures
Action against the severe impacts of climate change requires strengthening the local community’s resilience to hazards such as landslides and flash floods. Therefore, improving farmers’ knowledge to adopt farm-based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) measures is key. In addition, mountainous areas limit accessibility by external, less-facilitated government extension workers mandated for information transfer. Other informal, local social networks can …
Identifying success factors for integrated coastal zone management
Integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) is a policy framework that aims to achieve sustainable development in the context of limited space and resources of (densely populated) coastal areas, by balancing environmental protection, societal needs, and economic development. In this paper, we first reflect on key components influencing the success of ICZM. Second, we compare our understanding to the process of preparation of a coastal plan for the …
Exposure and physical vulnerability to geo-hydrological hazards in rural environments
Inventories of natural hazards in under-reported regions
Impacts of natural hazards are on an increase globally. To mitigate these impacts, sound disaster risk reduction strategies must rely on comprehensive inventory of natural hazards. However, to date, many regions worldwide still suffer from a dearth of information. The goal of our research is to assess how, with limited means and several methods, environments that are typically under-researched can be covered with accurate information on which fur…
Disaster risk reduction measures and farmers choices
sponsorship: Special thanks to the research assistants comprised of Emile van Caenegem, Esther Namara, Collin Tweheyo, Taddeo Kyomuhendo, and Benedicto Akoraebirungi. We also thank Lysander Fockaert for generating the designs in Ngene software. We thank Engineer Kaganda Akiiki for accepting that we shoot the videos from Mugamba Organic Coffee Farm in Kabarole District. We also acknowledge the effort of all the citizen scientists who worked as fie…
Does the farmer’s social information network matter? Explaining adoption behavior for disaster risk reduction measures using the theory of planned behavior
Smallholder farmers’ vulnerability to climate-related disasters in Sub-Saharan Africa is increasing, partly due to land-use changes and poor adoption behavior for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) measures. Such behavior can be explained by poor beliefs about DRR measures due to limited access to information. Agricultural extension workers are increasingly less trusted because they tend to transfer information less targeted to DRR and have limited sp…
Foundations of indigenous knowledge on disasters due to natural hazards
The role of indigenous knowledge in increasing context specificity and exposing blind spots in scientific understanding is widely evidenced in disaster studies. This paper aims to structure the processes that shape indigenous knowledge production and its optimisation using the case of floods. An inductive analytical approach is applied among riparian indigenous communities (focus on the Bayira) of the Rwenzori region of Uganda where plenty of ind…
The socio-epistemic process of indigenous disaster risk reduction
Risk Perception and Implementation of Mitigation Measures By Populations Living Near Volcán De Colima, Mexico
Can citizen scientists provide a reliable geo-hydrological hazard inventory? An analysis of biases, sensitivity and precision for the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda
Spatio-temporal inventory of natural hazards is a challenging task especially in rural or remote areas in the Global South where data collection at regional scale is difficult. Citizen science, i.e. involvement of no-experts in collecting information and co-creation of knowledge with experts to solve societal and environmental problems, has been suggested as a viable approach to tackle this bottleneck, although the reliability of the resulting da…
DisCoord
Effective disaster risk reduction (DRR) presupposes awareness among key stakeholders on the causal factors that exacerbate disaster risks as well as a feeling of ownership over proposed DRR measures. Yet, the prevailing top-down communication of risk and the expert-centered knowledge have a limited impact in bringing significant positive change. Serious games respond to the need for a community-based DRR approach as they encourage a collective re…
Evaluating population vulnerability to volcanic risk in a data scarcity context
Goma city, at the eastern border of DRCongo, is highly exposed to natural hazards, especially from Nyiragongo volcano, located directly North of it. In January 2002, the city centre of Goma was devastated by lava flows and several thousands of people were temporarily displaced. Defining and quantifying population vulnerability to natural hazards, and lava flow hazards in particular, is a crucial element to evaluate and manage the risk. This paper…
Questioning knowledge foundation
Resettlement preferences from landslide prone areas in Cameroon
Studying the Cognitive Map of the U.S. States
What are the spontaneous stereotypes that U.S. citizens hold about the U.S. states? We complemented insights from theory-driven approaches to this question with insights from a novel data-driven approach. Based on pile sorting and spatial arrangement similarity ratings for the states, we computed two cognitive maps of the states. Based on ratings for the states on ∼20 candidate dimensions, we interpreted the dimensions that spanned the two maps (…
Socio-political drivers and consequences of landslide and flood risk zonation
Disaster risk zonation is often proposed as a long-term disaster risk reduction strategy by international treaties and academic research. This strategy has been implemented in the city of Limbe, which is known to be a disaster-prone one. Citizens are forced to settle in unsafe terrains, ranging from wetlands to unstable hillslopes due to the city’s geographical location and economic attraction. Following the fatal landslides and floods in 2001, a…
Questioning network governance for disaster risk management
Disaster risk reduction among households exposed to landslide hazard
Factors influencing people’s knowledge, attitude, and practice in land use dynamics
Assessing Risks from Cyclones for Human Lives and Livelihoods in the Coastal Region of Bangladesh
As a disaster prone country, Bangladesh is regularly hit by natural hazards, including devastating cyclones, such as in 1970, 1991 and 2007. Although the number of cyclones' fatalities reduced from 0.3 million in 1970 to a few thousand or fewer in recent events, loss of lives and impact on livelihoods remains a concern. It depends on the meteorological characteristics of cyclone and the general vulnerability and capacity of the exposed population…
A worst-case scenario based methodology to assess the environmental impact of land use planning
Mapping and modelling lava flow dynamics and hazards at mount Cameroon volcano
Destruction of human property and agro-allied plantations by lava flow invasion is a significant volcanic hazard at Mount Cameroon volcano (Cameroon), where reliable hazard and risk maps are required for risk mitigation. This thesis is dedicated to the study of lava flows at Mount Cameroon, a volcano situated in a densely populated region with over 450000 inhabitants on its flanks. Mount Cameroon (MC) is the largest (~ 4095 m a.s.l.) active conti…
Mapping and modelling lava flow dynamics and hazards at mount Cameroon volcano
Destruction of human property and agro-allied plantations by lava flow invasion is a significant volcanic hazard at Mount Cameroon volcano (Cameroon), where reliable hazard and risk maps are required for risk mitigation. This thesis is dedicated to the study of lava flows at Mount Cameroon, a volcano situated in a densely populated region with over 450000 inhabitants on its flanks
Slope stability analysis and landslide susceptibility assessment on the SE foot slopes of Mt Cameroon
Landslides are well known processes that hamper sustainable development efforts, particularly in developing countries where extreme poverty is already a household to societal scale problem. Though a worldwide issue, landslides remain enigmatic especially with regards to their geometry, causative factors, triggering mechanisms, relationship between triggering factors and landslide occurrence, and the susceptibility of any area to mass wasting phen…
Slope stability analysis and landslide susceptibility assessment on the SE foot slopes of Mt Cameroon
Landslides are well known processes that hamper sustainable development efforts, particularly in developing countries where extreme poverty is already a household to societal scale problem. Though a worldwide issue, landslides remain enigmatic especially with regards to their geometry, causative factors, triggering mechanisms, relationship between triggering factors and landslide occurrence, and the susceptibility of any area to mass wasting phen…
Disaster risk reduction among households exposed to landslide hazard
Resettlement preferences from landslide prone areas in Cameroon
Questioning network governance for disaster risk management
Factors influencing people’s knowledge, attitude, and practice in land use dynamics
A worst-case scenario based methodology to assess the environmental impact of land use planning
Socio-political drivers and consequences of landslide and flood risk zonation
Disaster risk zonation is often proposed as a long-term disaster risk reduction strategy by international treaties and academic research. This strategy has been implemented in the city of Limbe, which is known to be a disaster-prone one. Citizens are forced to settle in unsafe terrains, ranging from wetlands to unstable hillslopes due to the city’s geographical location and economic attraction. Following the fatal landslides and floods in 2001, a…
Slope stability analysis and landslide susceptibility assessment on the SE foot slopes of Mt Cameroon
Landslides are well known processes that hamper sustainable development efforts, particularly in developing countries where extreme poverty is already a household to societal scale problem. Though a worldwide issue, landslides remain enigmatic especially with regards to their geometry, causative factors, triggering mechanisms, relationship between triggering factors and landslide occurrence, and the susceptibility of any area to mass wasting phen…
Slope stability analysis and landslide susceptibility assessment on the SE foot slopes of Mt Cameroon
Landslides are well known processes that hamper sustainable development efforts, particularly in developing countries where extreme poverty is already a household to societal scale problem. Though a worldwide issue, landslides remain enigmatic especially with regards to their geometry, causative factors, triggering mechanisms, relationship between triggering factors and landslide occurrence, and the susceptibility of any area to mass wasting phen…
Mapping and modelling lava flow dynamics and hazards at mount Cameroon volcano
Destruction of human property and agro-allied plantations by lava flow invasion is a significant volcanic hazard at Mount Cameroon volcano (Cameroon), where reliable hazard and risk maps are required for risk mitigation. This thesis is dedicated to the study of lava flows at Mount Cameroon, a volcano situated in a densely populated region with over 450000 inhabitants on its flanks. Mount Cameroon (MC) is the largest (~ 4095 m a.s.l.) active conti…
Mapping and modelling lava flow dynamics and hazards at mount Cameroon volcano
Destruction of human property and agro-allied plantations by lava flow invasion is a significant volcanic hazard at Mount Cameroon volcano (Cameroon), where reliable hazard and risk maps are required for risk mitigation. This thesis is dedicated to the study of lava flows at Mount Cameroon, a volcano situated in a densely populated region with over 450000 inhabitants on its flanks
Assessing Risks from Cyclones for Human Lives and Livelihoods in the Coastal Region of Bangladesh
As a disaster prone country, Bangladesh is regularly hit by natural hazards, including devastating cyclones, such as in 1970, 1991 and 2007. Although the number of cyclones' fatalities reduced from 0.3 million in 1970 to a few thousand or fewer in recent events, loss of lives and impact on livelihoods remains a concern. It depends on the meteorological characteristics of cyclone and the general vulnerability and capacity of the exposed population…
A worst-case scenario based methodology to assess the environmental impact of land use planning
Studying the Cognitive Map of the U.S. States
What are the spontaneous stereotypes that U.S. citizens hold about the U.S. states? We complemented insights from theory-driven approaches to this question with insights from a novel data-driven approach. Based on pile sorting and spatial arrangement similarity ratings for the states, we computed two cognitive maps of the states. Based on ratings for the states on ∼20 candidate dimensions, we interpreted the dimensions that spanned the two maps (…
Socio-political drivers and consequences of landslide and flood risk zonation
Disaster risk zonation is often proposed as a long-term disaster risk reduction strategy by international treaties and academic research. This strategy has been implemented in the city of Limbe, which is known to be a disaster-prone one. Citizens are forced to settle in unsafe terrains, ranging from wetlands to unstable hillslopes due to the city’s geographical location and economic attraction. Following the fatal landslides and floods in 2001, a…
Questioning network governance for disaster risk management
Disaster risk reduction among households exposed to landslide hazard
Factors influencing people’s knowledge, attitude, and practice in land use dynamics
Evaluating population vulnerability to volcanic risk in a data scarcity context
Goma city, at the eastern border of DRCongo, is highly exposed to natural hazards, especially from Nyiragongo volcano, located directly North of it. In January 2002, the city centre of Goma was devastated by lava flows and several thousands of people were temporarily displaced. Defining and quantifying population vulnerability to natural hazards, and lava flow hazards in particular, is a crucial element to evaluate and manage the risk. This paper…
Questioning knowledge foundation
Resettlement preferences from landslide prone areas in Cameroon
DisCoord
Effective disaster risk reduction (DRR) presupposes awareness among key stakeholders on the causal factors that exacerbate disaster risks as well as a feeling of ownership over proposed DRR measures. Yet, the prevailing top-down communication of risk and the expert-centered knowledge have a limited impact in bringing significant positive change. Serious games respond to the need for a community-based DRR approach as they encourage a collective re…
The socio-epistemic process of indigenous disaster risk reduction
Risk Perception and Implementation of Mitigation Measures By Populations Living Near Volcán De Colima, Mexico
Can citizen scientists provide a reliable geo-hydrological hazard inventory? An analysis of biases, sensitivity and precision for the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda
Spatio-temporal inventory of natural hazards is a challenging task especially in rural or remote areas in the Global South where data collection at regional scale is difficult. Citizen science, i.e. involvement of no-experts in collecting information and co-creation of knowledge with experts to solve societal and environmental problems, has been suggested as a viable approach to tackle this bottleneck, although the reliability of the resulting da…
Does the farmer’s social information network matter? Explaining adoption behavior for disaster risk reduction measures using the theory of planned behavior
Smallholder farmers’ vulnerability to climate-related disasters in Sub-Saharan Africa is increasing, partly due to land-use changes and poor adoption behavior for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) measures. Such behavior can be explained by poor beliefs about DRR measures due to limited access to information. Agricultural extension workers are increasingly less trusted because they tend to transfer information less targeted to DRR and have limited sp…
Foundations of indigenous knowledge on disasters due to natural hazards
The role of indigenous knowledge in increasing context specificity and exposing blind spots in scientific understanding is widely evidenced in disaster studies. This paper aims to structure the processes that shape indigenous knowledge production and its optimisation using the case of floods. An inductive analytical approach is applied among riparian indigenous communities (focus on the Bayira) of the Rwenzori region of Uganda where plenty of ind…
Exposure and physical vulnerability to geo-hydrological hazards in rural environments
Inventories of natural hazards in under-reported regions
Impacts of natural hazards are on an increase globally. To mitigate these impacts, sound disaster risk reduction strategies must rely on comprehensive inventory of natural hazards. However, to date, many regions worldwide still suffer from a dearth of information. The goal of our research is to assess how, with limited means and several methods, environments that are typically under-researched can be covered with accurate information on which fur…
Disaster risk reduction measures and farmers choices
sponsorship: Special thanks to the research assistants comprised of Emile van Caenegem, Esther Namara, Collin Tweheyo, Taddeo Kyomuhendo, and Benedicto Akoraebirungi. We also thank Lysander Fockaert for generating the designs in Ngene software. We thank Engineer Kaganda Akiiki for accepting that we shoot the videos from Mugamba Organic Coffee Farm in Kabarole District. We also acknowledge the effort of all the citizen scientists who worked as fie…
Identifying success factors for integrated coastal zone management
Integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) is a policy framework that aims to achieve sustainable development in the context of limited space and resources of (densely populated) coastal areas, by balancing environmental protection, societal needs, and economic development. In this paper, we first reflect on key components influencing the success of ICZM. Second, we compare our understanding to the process of preparation of a coastal plan for the …
Farmers’ social networks and adoption of disaster risk reduction measures
Action against the severe impacts of climate change requires strengthening the local community’s resilience to hazards such as landslides and flash floods. Therefore, improving farmers’ knowledge to adopt farm-based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) measures is key. In addition, mountainous areas limit accessibility by external, less-facilitated government extension workers mandated for information transfer. Other informal, local social networks can …
Geography (18 obras) · Environmental planning (12 obras) · Environmental resource management (12 obras) · Disaster Management and Resilience (11 obras) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (10 obras) · Ecology (9 obras) · Environmental Science (9 obras) · Landslides and related hazards (9 obras) · Business (8 obras) · Disaster risk reduction (8 obras)