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• 2025

  Historicizing Natural Hazards and Human-Induced Landscape Transformation in a Tropical Mountainous Environment in Africa: Narratives from Elderly Citizens

  Kanyiginya, V., Twongyirwe, R., Mubiru, D., Michellier, C., Ashepet, M. G., Kagoro-Rugunda, G., Kervyn, M. & Dewitte, O., Feb 2025, In: Land. 14, 2, p. 1-33 33 p., 346.

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• Identifying success factors for integrated coastal zone management: Development of a regional coastal plan in Morocco.

  Ivčević, A., Povh Škugor, D., Snoussi, M., Karner, M., Kervyn, M. & Hugé, J., May 2025, In: Environmental Science and Policy. 167, 10 p., 104027.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• 2024

  Adaptation of crop portfolios to perceived indicators of climate variability by smallholder farmers in south-western Uganda

  Nabasumba, D., Kagoro, G., Bukenya, H., Twongyirwe, R., Lejju, J., Nakintu, J., Wangalwa, R., Sekajugo, J., Muzira, R., Nakazibwe, I., Vranken, L. & Kervyn, M., 12 Sept 2024, (Unpublished) p. 392. 1 p.

  Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Poster

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• Assessing lava flow susceptibility at neighbouring volcanoes: Nyamulagira and Nyiragongo volcanoes, Virunga Volcanic Province

  Kervyn, M., Barette, F., Poppe, S., Smets, B., Syavulisembo Muhindo, A., Kambale Makundi, J., Ngunzi Kahashi, Y., Kambale Ndagana, J., Mossoux, S., Kervyn, F. & Michellier, C., 11 Apr 2024, In: Journal of Applied Volcanology. 13, 1, 22 p., 5.

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• Assessing scale reliability in citizen science motivational research: lessons learned from two case studies in Uganda

  Ashepet, M. G., Vranken, L., Michellier, C., Dewitte, O., MUTYEBERE, RODGERS., Kabaseke, C., Twongyirwe, R., Kanyiginya, V., Kagoro-Rugunda, G., Huyse, T. & Jacobs, L., 13 Mar 2024, In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 11, 1, 18 p., 406.

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• Building a prepared community to volcanic risk in the global south: Assessment of awareness raising tools for high school students in Goma, (East DR Congo)

  Mafuko-Nyandwi, B., Kervyn, M., Habiyaremye, F. M., Vanwing, T., Kervyn, F., Jacquet, W., Mitengezo, V. & Michellier, C., Dec 2024, In: Progress in disaster science. 24, 17 p., 100370.

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• Disaster risk reduction measures and farmers choices: a discrete choice experiment in Uganda

  MUTYEBERE, RODGERS., Vanermen, I., Kato, V. R., Nkurikiye, J. B., Twongyirwe, R., Sekajugo, J., Kabaseke, C., Kanyiginya, V., Kagoro-Rugunda, G., Kervyn, M. & Vranken, L., 15 Oct 2024, In: Environmental Hazards. 30 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Estimation of groundwater recharge from groundwater level fluctuations and baseflow rates around Mount Meru, Tanzania

  Bennett, G., Shemsanga, C., Kervyn, M. & Walraevens, K., May 2024, In: Groundwater for Sustainable Development. 25, 14 p., 101133.

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• Exposure and physical vulnerability to geo-hydrological hazards in rural environments: A field-based assessment in East Africa

  Sekajugo, J., Kagoro-Rugunda, G., Mutyebere, R., Kabaseke, C., Mubiru, D., Kanyiginya, V., Vranken, L., Jacobs, L., Dewitte, O. & Kervyn, M., 15 Feb 2024, In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 102, 20 p., 104282.

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• Integrating susceptibility maps of multiple hazards and building exposure distribution: a case study of wildfires and floods for the province of Quang Nam, Vietnam: a case study of wildfires and floods for the province of Quang Nam, Vietnam

  Luu, C., Forino, G., Yorke, L., Ha, H., Bui, Q. D., Tran Hong, H., Nguyen, Q. D., Duong Cong, H. & Kervyn, M., 5 Dec 2024, In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 24, 12, p. 4385-4408 24 p.

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• Inventories of natural hazards in under-reported regions: a multi-method insight from a tropical mountainous landscape

  Kanyiginya, V., Twongyirwe, R., Kagoro-Rugunda, G., Mubiru, D., Sekajugo, J., Mutyebere, R., Deijns, A. A. J., Kervyn, M. & Dewitte, O., 2024, In: African Geographical Review. 43, 7, p. 827-846 20 p.

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• Our land, our survival: Vulnerabilization and decolonial resistance through communal land in Puerto Rico and Barbuda

  Algoed, L., 2024, 207 p.

  Research output: Thesis › PhD Thesis

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• Quantitative vulnerability and risk assessment of geo-hydrological hazards in a data-scarce environment with a contribution of citizen science

  Sekajugo, J., 2024, 175 p.

  Research output: Thesis › PhD Thesis

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• Tephra comminution by vehicles and resuspension of volcanic ash: impact on ambient air quality in urban areas

  Tomašek, I., Tournigand, P-Y., Andronico, D., Eychenne, J., Horwell, C., Kueppers, U., Taddeucci, J., Claeys, P. & Kervyn, M., 11 Mar 2024, EGU General Assembly 2024. European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vol. 2024. p. 1-1 1 p. 168776

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Meeting abstract (Book)

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• The RETS Project - Revealing the Senne. A hidden landmark in the historical center of Brussels, Belgium

  Vergouwen, D., Devos, Y., Vandam, R., Degraeve, A. & Meganck, M., 11 Sept 2024.

  Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Poster

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• Time-varying drainage basin development and erosion on volcanic edifices

  O'hara, D., Goren, L., Van Wees, R. M. J., Campforts, B., Grosse, P., Lahitte, P., Kereszturi, G. & Kervyn, M., 8 May 2024, In: Earth Surface Dynamics. 12, 3, p. 709-726 18 p.

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• Towards more consistent volcano morphometry datasets: Assessing boundary delineation and DEM impact on geometric and drainage parameters

  van Wees, R. M. J., O'Hara, D., Kereszturi, G., Grosse, P., Lahitte, P., Tournigand, P-Y. & Kervyn, M., 15 Nov 2024, In: Geomorphology. 465, 39 p., 109381.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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• 2023

  Building a prepared community to volcanic risk: assessment of awareness raising tools for secondary school in Goma, (Eastern DR Congo)

  Mafuko Nyandwi, B., Kervyn, M., Muhashy Habiyaremye, F., Kervyn, F. & Michellier, C., 22 Feb 2023, 1 p. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts.

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• Differences in volcanic risk perception among Goma's population before the Nyiragongo eruption of May 2021, Virunga volcanic province (DR Congo)

  Mafuko Nyandwi, B., Kervyn, M., Habiyaremye, F. M., Kervyn, F. & Michellier, C., 3 Mar 2023, In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 23, 2, p. 933–953 21 p.

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• Does the farmer's social information network matter? Explaining adoption behavior for disaster risk reduction measures using the theory of planned behavior

  Mutyebere, R., Twongyirwe, R., Sekajugo, J., Kabaseke, C., Kagoro-Rugunda, G., Kervyn, M. & Vranken, L., 15 Jun 2023, In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 92, 16 p., 103721.

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• Foundations of indigenous knowledge on disasters due to natural hazards: lessons from the outlook on floods among the Bayira of the Rwenzori region

  Bwambale, B., Muhumuza, M., Kahigwa, T. T., Baluku, S. M. B., Kasozi, H., Nyeko, M. & Kervyn, M., Jan 2023, In: DISASTERS. 47, 1, p. 181-204 24 p.

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• Influence of landslide inventory timespan and data selection on slope unit-based susceptibility models

  Rolain, S., Alvioli, M., Nguyen, Q. D., Nguyen, T. L., Jacobs, L. & Kervyn, M., 11 Jul 2023, In: Natural Hazards. 118, 3, p. 2227–2244 18 p.

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• Insights into volcano degradation from analogue modelling: how volcano shape and size influence runoff erosion and morphology

  van Wees, R. M. J., Paguican, E. M., O'Hara, D., Kereszturi, G., Grosse, P., Lahitte, P. & Kervyn, M., 1 Feb 2023.

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• Life cycle of gullies: a susceptibility assessment in the Southern Main Ethiopian Rift

  Belayneh, L., Kervyn, M., Gulie, G., Poesen, J., Stal, C., Kasaye, A., Endale, T., Sekajugo, J. & Dewitte, O., 7 Dec 2023, In: Natural Hazards. 120, p. 3067-3104 38 p.

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• Mainstreaming Decentralization and Collaboration in Disaster Risk Management: Insights from Coastal Bangladesh

  Quader, M. A., Khan, A. U., Malak, M. A. & Kervyn, M., Jun 2023, In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. 14, 3, p. 382-397 16 p.

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• Remote volcano monitoring using crowd-sourced imagery and Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry: A case study of Oldoinyo Lengai's active pit crater since the 2007–08 paroxysm

  Tournigand, P. Y., Smets, B., Laxton, K., Dille, A., France, L., Chazot, G., Ho, C., Wauthier, C., Nicholson, E. J., Kasanzu, C. H., Msechu, M. & Kervyn, M., Nov 2023, In: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 443, 14 p., 107918.

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• Structural controls on magma pathways in the Bora-Baricha-Tullu Moye volcanic system, Main Ethiopian Rift

  Tadesse, A. Z., Bedassa, G., Kervyn, M., Muluneh, A. A., Gudbrandsson, S., Yirgu, G., Ayalew, D. & Fontijn, K., 5 Oct 2023, In: Volcanica. 6, 2, p. 367-390 24 p.

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• To go or not to go when the lava flow is coming? Understanding evacuation decisions of Goma inhabitants during the 2021 Nyiragongo eruption crisis

  Mafuko Nyandwi, B., Kervyn, M., Muhashy Habiyaremye, F., Kervyn, F. & Michellier, C., Dec 2023, In: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 444, 17 p., 107947.

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• Transition from volcano-sagging to volcano-spreading

  Holohan, E. P., Poppe, S., Delcamp, A., Byrne, P. K., Walter, T. R., de Vries, B. V. W. & Kervyn, M., 15 Feb 2023, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 604, 15 p., 118012.

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• Volcanic history and controls on fluoride contamination of water resources at Mt. Meru, Northern Tanzania

  Kisaka, M. J., 2023, 225 p.

  Research output: Thesis › PhD Thesis

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• What controls physical vulnerability to geo-hydrological hazards? A contribution to quantitative assessment of landslide and flood risk in western Uganda

  Sekajugo, J., Kagoro-Rugunda, G., Mutyebere, R., Kabaseke, C., Mubiru, D., Namara, E., Kanyiginya, V., Bwambale, B., Jacobs, L. J., Dewitte, O. & Kervyn, M., 15 May 2023, 1 p. Egusphere.

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• 2022

  Acceleration of a large deep-seated tropical landslide due to urbanization feedbacks

  Dille, A., Dewitte, O., Handwerger, A. L., d’Oreye, N., Derauw, D., Ganza Bamulezi, G., Ilombe Mawe, G., Michellier, C., Moeyersons, J., Monsieurs, E., Mugaruka Bibentyo, T., Samsonov, S., Smets, B., Kervyn, M. & Kervyn, F., 5 Dec 2022, In: Nature Geoscience. 15, 12, p. 1048-1055 8 p.

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• Assessing the knowledge and attitude of the population to volcanic risk: The case of the city of Goma, Eastern DR Congo

  Mafuko Nyandwi, B., Kervyn, M., Muhashy Habiyaremye, F., Kervyn, F. & Michellier, C., 12 Jun 2022, p. 92. 1 p.

  Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Poster

• Assessing the spatial variation of risk from coastal hazards and risk reduction strategies along the coast of Bangladesh

  Quader, M. A., 2022, 239 p.

  Research output: Thesis › PhD Thesis

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• Assessment of spatial and temporal variability of groundwater level in the aquifer system on the flanks of Mount Meru, Northern Tanzania

  Bennett, G., Van Camp, M., Shemsanga, C., Kervyn, M. & Walraevens, K., Dec 2022, In: Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. 44, p. 1-34 34 p., 101212.

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• Can citizen scientists provide a reliable geo-hydrological hazard inventory? An analysis of biases, sensitivity and precision for the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda

  Sekajugo, J., Kagoro-Rugunda, G., Mutyebere, R., Kabaseke, C., Namara, E., Dewitte, O., Kervyn, M. & Jacobs, L., 1 Apr 2022, In: Environmental Research Letters. 17, 4, p. 1-15 15 p., 045011.

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• Contrasts in volcanic risk perception among Goma population before the Nyiragongo eruption of May 2021 (East DR Congo)

  Mafuko Nyandwi, B., Michellier, C., Habiyaremye, F. M., Kervyn, F. & Kervyn, M., 26 Mar 2022, 1 p.

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• Contrasts in volcanic risk perception and protection behaviour among Goma population before the Nyiragongo eruption of May 2021

  Mafuko Nyandwi, B., Kervyn, M., Muhashy Habiyaremye, F., Kervyn, F. & Michellier, C., 2022, p. 84. 1 p.

  Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Poster

• Delineation of the aquifer structure and estimation of hydraulic properties on the flanks of Mount Meru, Northern Tanzania

  Bennett, G., Van Camp, M., Shemsanga, C., Kervyn, M. & Walraevens, K., Dec 2022, In: Journal of African Earth Sciences. 196, p. 1-24 24 p., 104673.

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• Differences in volcanic risk perception among Goma’s population before the Nyiragongo eruption of May 2021, Virunga volcanic province (DR Congo)

  Mafuko Nyandwi, B., Kervyn, M., Habiyaremye, M., Kervyn, F. & Michellier, C., 17 Aug 2022, 1 p.

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• Evaluation of High-Resolution Precipitation Products over the Rwenzori Mountains (Uganda)

  Nakulopa, F., Vanderkelen, I., Van de Walle, J., van Lipzig, N. P. M., Tabari, H., Jacobs, L., Tweheyo, C., Dewitte, O. & Thiery, W., 20 May 2022, In: Journal of Hydrometeorology. 23, 5, p. 747-768 22 p.

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• Identification of low fluoride areas using conceptual groundwater flow model and hydrogeochemical system analysis in the aquifer system on the flanks of an active volcano: Mount Meru, Northern Tanzania

  Bennett, G., Van Reybrouck, J., Shemsanga, C., Kisaka, M., Tomašek, I., Fontijn, K., Kervyn, M. & Walraevens, K., 25 Mar 2022, In: Science of the Total Environment. 814, p. 1-17 17 p., 152682.

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• Landslides and Gullies Interact as Sources of Lake Sediments in a Rifting Context: Insights from a Highly Degraded Mountain Environment

  Bunare, L. B., Dewitte, O., Gulie, G., Poesen, J., O'Hara, D., Tilahun, A. K., Elcho, T. E. & Kervyn, M., 8 Jul 2022, In: Geosciences. 12, 7, p. 1-28 28 p., 274.

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• Landslides in a changing tropical environment: the North Tanganyika–Kivu rift region, Africa

  Dewitte, O., Depicker, A., Mateso, J-C. M., Bielders, C., Deijns, A., Dewaele, S., Govers, G., Jacobs, L., Kanyiginya, V., Kervyn, F., Kervyn, M., Kubwimana, D., Bibentyo, T. M., Nzolang, C., Sibomana, P., Twongyirwe, R., Vanmaercke, M. & Dille, A., 20 Jun 2022, Coimbra: Centro de Literatura Portuguesa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2013-.

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• Modelling the early Cenozoic Antarctic ice sheet history

  Van Breedam, J., 2022, 251 p.

  Research output: Thesis › PhD Thesis

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• Modelling the spatial variation in susceptibility to gully initiation and stabilization in the Southern Main Ethiopian Rift Valley

  Bunare, L. B., Olivier, D., Gulie, G., Poesen, J., Stal, C. & Kervyn, M., 2022.

  Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Unpublished abstract

• Naturally occurring potentially toxic elements in groundwater from the volcanic landscape around Mount Meru, Arusha, Tanzania and their potential health hazard

  Tomašek, I., Mouri, H., Dille, A., Bennett, G., Bhattacharya, P., Brion, N., Elskens, M., Fontijn, K., Gao, Y., Gevera, P. K., Ijumulana, J., Kisaka, M., Leermakers, M., Shemsanga, C., Walraevens, K., Wragg, J. & Kervyn, M., 10 Feb 2022, In: Science of the Total Environment. 807, Part 1, 150487.

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• Precursor-free eruption triggered by edifice rupture at Nyiragongo volcano

  Smittarello, D., Smets, B., Barrière, J., Michellier, C., Oth, A., Shreve, T., Grandin, R., Theys, N., Brenot, H., Cayol, V., Allard, P., Caudron, C., Chevrel, O., Darchambeau, F., de Buyl, P., Delhaye, L., Derauw, D., Ganci, G., Geirsson, H., Kamate Kaleghetso, E., & 15 othersKambale Makundi, J., Kambale Nguomoja, I., Kasereka Mahinda, C., Kervyn, M., Kimanuka Ruriho, C., Le Mével, H., Molendijk, S., Namur, O., Poppe, S., Subira, J., Wauthier, C., Yalire, M., d’Oreye, N., Kervyn, F. & Syavulisembo Muhindo, A., 1 Sept 2022, In: Nature. 609, 7925, p. 83-88 6 p.

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• Risk Perception and Implementation of Mitigation Measures By Populations Living Near Volcan De Colima, Mexico

  López-Fletes, C. A., van Loenhout, J. A. F. & Kervyn, M., Jun 2022, In: Human Ecology. 50, 3, p. 435-446 12 p.

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• Sediment transport and storage in the southern Ethiopia rift valley: a case study on the Elgo and Shafe river systems

  Tilahun, A. K., 2022, 173 p.

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