SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
The SEG research group focuses on all social and economic activities and developments on the earth's surface.
Research
The Social and Economic Geography research group (SEG) focusses on three clusters.
First of all, SEG analyses travel behaviour and city logistics.
Second, there is an emphasis on present-day evolutions in the Flemish urban system, urban policy, and the formation of a world city network.
Finally, SEG also investigates location decisions of private and public companies, the relationship between transport and production, and land use modelling.
Keywords: urban development — world city network — travel behaviour — transportation — transportation land development
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On Friday 26 August, Melaku Bogale Fitawok successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘The impact of urbanization on land-use change and farmers’ livelihood in Ethiopia’. This research was supervised by Prof. dr. Ben Derudder (UGen…
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This project aims to contribute to the scientific literature on ‘polycentric urban regions’ (PURs). In its most basic guise, the PUR notion applies to regions characterised by the presence of a set of nearby cities that are o…
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