Do we really need a recurrent disaster with immense human death toll to acknowledge the ecosystem goods and services of mangrove forests and protect them ?
Farid DAHDOUH-GUEBAS / Professor
Category: Climate change & political action
Aurore Degré / Professor
It's now urgent to protect water and soil ressources. The action we take at personnal level are insufficient but absolutely necessary.
Morgane Dendoncker / Phd candidate
We should all act now and together
Hans De Boeck / Researcher
I conduct research on the impacts climate change has on ecosystems, also in conjunction with other global changes – such as biodiversity loss. When I’m at conferences, it is easy (...)
Isa Schön / Senior researcher and guest professor
It takes millions of years for new species to evolve; fast extinction due to global warm will give animals and plants no time to adapt. We need to act now!
Michel Crucifix / Professor and Research Scientist
My main concern is with my area of expertise. Climate change is a concern, not so much because it will be warmer in Belgium, but because it will be an additional destabilizing (...)
David Lombard / PhD student-researcher
Although the Anthropocene and climate change are widely known as scientific issues, they are also significant cultural problems. In literary criticism and ecocriticism, the main (...)
Stef Craps / Professor of English Literature
As a literary scholar who studies climate change fiction, I believe that focusing on individual lifestyle choices risks distracting from the policy debates we should be having.
Xavier Desmit / Researcher
Global threats require global, political actions. Individual actions are also important to support political initiatives. Adapting to change provides freedom, joy and awareness.
Josefine Vanhille / Researcher
Besides an ecological problem, I see climate change also as a (gigantic) social question.