Karl Mertens
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 459798 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Karl Mertens |
| PRENOMES | Karl |
| SOBRENOME | Mertens |
| ASSINATURA | MERTENS K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4233-9323 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Protected areas as zones of paradoxical composition. The case of an area “strictly protected for science”
This article adopts a spatial perspective to reconceptualise protected areas. We analyse protected areas as zones of paradoxical composition, that is, spaces where an objective of de-inhabitation and an objective of the selective reintroduction of human activities (re-inhabitation) are placed together —composed, in its etymological sense— in often complex and contested ways. Specifically, we examine the close association of conservation with scie…
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 …
Adaptive Strategies of Indigenous Nenets Reindeer Herders for Climate Change in Yamal
Nenets reindeer pastoralists of Yamal in the Russian Arctic, successfully deal with rapidly changing climate and natural gas industrialization. We present results from our long-term ethnographic study (2001–present) on the adaptive strategies that Nenets nomadic households have employed over time, their tradeoffs, inherent risks, and social implications of these strategies. While some strategies limit the adaptive flexibility of herding, they sim…
Against Self-Reflexive Confessions
This paper introduces an approach to transform academic North–South collaborations. Critiquing entrenched dynamics in inter-university collaborations, we propose a methodology for unlearning colonial modes of thinking and relating. The transformative dialogues proposed in this paper illustrate how researchers can jointly engage in generating collective reflexivity and mutual accountability to challenge established norms in academia. Using autoeth…
Making explicit an Ecosystem Services indicator as a policy instrument
International audience
Striving, Willing, and Acting in Pfänder and Husserl
This article presents a mutual critique of the analytic and phenomenological theory of action. The first perspective focuses on the standard approach introduced by G.E.M. Anscombe. According to Anscombe, actions are events that are intentional under a description. Consequently, the distinction between action and mere behavior depends on the linguistic description of behavior. However, this perspective fails to address the possible transitions bet…
Phenomenology of Broken Habits
This volume explores the phenomenology of broken habits and their affective, social, and involuntary dimensions. It shows how disruptive experiences impact self-understanding and social embeddedness. The chapters in this volume investigate the epistemic and existential relevance of breakdown of habits and the corresponding kinds of self-understanding available to the agent. The first part focuses on the double-sidedness of habitual life. On the o…
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
The impact of land certification and risk preferences on investment in soil and water conservation
Shaping Actions and Intentions – Introduction
Politicizing disaster governance
The disaster risk reduction (DRR) community tends to treat disasters and risks in a managerial and technocratic way, thereby disregarding the highly political nature of DRR. An alternative epistemology of disasters, as “matters of concern”, is proposed and tested. Mobilizing concepts from Chantal Mouffe and Bruno Latour, this paper illustrates how DRR can be transformed into a public issue. It is argued that education and policymaking on DRR woul…
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…
Tenure regimes and remoteness
Pro-poor land transfers in the presence of landslides
Resettlement preferences from landslide prone areas in Cameroon
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
Investing in land to change your risk exposure? Land transactions and inequality in a landslide prone region
Disaster risk reduction among households exposed to landslide hazard
Patterns of Evenki Mobility in Eastern Siberia
Mobility is an aspect of human activity that is highly contextual but also in need of a framework for comparative analysis through time and space. This article examines Evenki mobility patterns and their relationship to economic practices of hunting, fishing, and reindeer herding, and utilizes a framework for considering mobility cross-culturally. The Evenkis are an indigenous minority living throughout central and eastern Siberia in the Russian …
Die Dimension des Sozialen
Feeling, wanting, and acting are typically understood solely in terms of the individual. What does it mean, then, when we share feelings, have a common goal, or act jointly? This volume addresses the social dimension of these phenomena from diverse philosophical perspectives and from a sociological viewpoint. It reveals that sociality plays a constitutive part in our feeling, wanting, and acting.
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
Disaster risk reduction among households exposed to landslide hazard
Resettlement preferences from landslide prone areas in Cameroon
Questioning network governance for disaster risk management
Patterns of Evenki Mobility in Eastern Siberia
Mobility is an aspect of human activity that is highly contextual but also in need of a framework for comparative analysis through time and space. This article examines Evenki mobility patterns and their relationship to economic practices of hunting, fishing, and reindeer herding, and utilizes a framework for considering mobility cross-culturally. The Evenkis are an indigenous minority living throughout central and eastern Siberia in the Russian …
Politicizing disaster governance
The disaster risk reduction (DRR) community tends to treat disasters and risks in a managerial and technocratic way, thereby disregarding the highly political nature of DRR. An alternative epistemology of disasters, as “matters of concern”, is proposed and tested. Mobilizing concepts from Chantal Mouffe and Bruno Latour, this paper illustrates how DRR can be transformed into a public issue. It is argued that education and policymaking on DRR woul…
Striving, Willing, and Acting in Pfänder and Husserl
This article presents a mutual critique of the analytic and phenomenological theory of action. The first perspective focuses on the standard approach introduced by G.E.M. Anscombe. According to Anscombe, actions are events that are intentional under a description. Consequently, the distinction between action and mere behavior depends on the linguistic description of behavior. However, this perspective fails to address the possible transitions bet…
The impact of land certification and risk preferences on investment in soil and water conservation
Shaping Actions and Intentions – Introduction
Tenure regimes and remoteness
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…
Intention und Zeichen. Untersuchungen zu Franz Brentano und zu Edmund Husserls Frühwerk
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
Die Dimension des Sozialen
Feeling, wanting, and acting are typically understood solely in terms of the individual. What does it mean, then, when we share feelings, have a common goal, or act jointly? This volume addresses the social dimension of these phenomena from diverse philosophical perspectives and from a sociological viewpoint. It reveals that sociality plays a constitutive part in our feeling, wanting, and acting.
Patterns of Evenki Mobility in Eastern Siberia
Mobility is an aspect of human activity that is highly contextual but also in need of a framework for comparative analysis through time and space. This article examines Evenki mobility patterns and their relationship to economic practices of hunting, fishing, and reindeer herding, and utilizes a framework for considering mobility cross-culturally. The Evenkis are an indigenous minority living throughout central and eastern Siberia in the Russian …
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
Investing in land to change your risk exposure? Land transactions and inequality in a landslide prone region
Disaster risk reduction among households exposed to landslide hazard
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…
Tenure regimes and remoteness
Pro-poor land transfers in the presence of landslides
The socio-epistemic process of indigenous disaster risk reduction
Risk Perception and Implementation of Mitigation Measures By Populations Living Near Volcán De Colima, Mexico
The impact of land certification and risk preferences on investment in soil and water conservation
Shaping Actions and Intentions – Introduction
Politicizing disaster governance
The disaster risk reduction (DRR) community tends to treat disasters and risks in a managerial and technocratic way, thereby disregarding the highly political nature of DRR. An alternative epistemology of disasters, as “matters of concern”, is proposed and tested. Mobilizing concepts from Chantal Mouffe and Bruno Latour, this paper illustrates how DRR can be transformed into a public issue. It is argued that education and policymaking on DRR woul…
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…
Adaptive Strategies of Indigenous Nenets Reindeer Herders for Climate Change in Yamal
Nenets reindeer pastoralists of Yamal in the Russian Arctic, successfully deal with rapidly changing climate and natural gas industrialization. We present results from our long-term ethnographic study (2001–present) on the adaptive strategies that Nenets nomadic households have employed over time, their tradeoffs, inherent risks, and social implications of these strategies. While some strategies limit the adaptive flexibility of herding, they sim…
Against Self-Reflexive Confessions
This paper introduces an approach to transform academic North–South collaborations. Critiquing entrenched dynamics in inter-university collaborations, we propose a methodology for unlearning colonial modes of thinking and relating. The transformative dialogues proposed in this paper illustrate how researchers can jointly engage in generating collective reflexivity and mutual accountability to challenge established norms in academia. Using autoeth…
Making explicit an Ecosystem Services indicator as a policy instrument
International audience
Striving, Willing, and Acting in Pfänder and Husserl
This article presents a mutual critique of the analytic and phenomenological theory of action. The first perspective focuses on the standard approach introduced by G.E.M. Anscombe. According to Anscombe, actions are events that are intentional under a description. Consequently, the distinction between action and mere behavior depends on the linguistic description of behavior. However, this perspective fails to address the possible transitions bet…
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