PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
The Physical Geography research group of Ghent University focuses on man-environment interactions in the context of a changing environment.
Research
Research is mainly focussing on hydrogeomorphological processes at various scales from small catchments in Northern France (50-150 ha) to large river basins (Upper Blue Nile) in relationship to land use and cover, land management and climate variability.
Long-term (Late-Holocene), Medium-term (<200 years) and present-day dynamics are studied using various methodologies.
Furthermore, the research group is also involved in geoarcheological investigations in Egypt, Iran, and the study of permafrost in Switzerland and development projects in Ethiopia.
Keywords: geomorphological mapping — SfM-modelling — hydrogeomorphic modelling — run-off and sediment load — permafrost
News
Professor Jan Nyssen has been appointed as section editor for the journal “Land Degradation and Development”, which has an Impact Factor of 7.27. LDD has been divided into seven distinct subject‐specific sections and with sev…
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The Land Resilience project is part of the larger VLIR IUC institutional cooperation with Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia, and aims at improving the resilience of the land in the framework of building a climate resilient gre…
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