• Socio-ecological systems, land use change, rural-urban migrations

Recent projects

• Contested rural transitions: embracing conflicts through participatory research (01/01/2025 - 31/12/2025) - Promotor
• From pixels to people: spatial modelling of household characteristics in Flanders (09/10/2024 - 14/10/2028) - Promotor
• Spatiotemporal analysis of food environments in emerging new urban areas of low- and middle-income countries. (01/10/2024 - 30/09/2027) - Promotor
• Tourism and rural liveability in remote locations: Studying tourism impacts from a socio-spatial systems perspective (01/10/2024 - 30/09/2028) - Co-promotor
• Contribution of multi and hyper-spectral imagery to the assessment and spatio-temporal monitoring of evapotranspiration and soil degradation in a context of climate change. (23/05/2024 - 23/05/2028) - Co-promotor
• Resilience of urban food system in the rapidly urbanizing cities of Sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Dar es Salaam city (15/11/2023 - 15/11/2027) - Promotor
• Tourism Governance as an Essential Ingredient of the Sustainability of Tourism Development. The Case of the Lake Tana Area (19/09/2023 - 19/09/2027) - Promotor
• Spatial analysis of rural-urban migration and the growth of secondary cities in Sub-Sahara Africa. Case study: Jimma zone (SW-Ethiopia) (09/02/2023 - 09/02/2027) - Promotor
• THE IMPACT OF DEPOPULATION ON ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN EUROPE. A PILOT STUDY IN FRANCE, CZECH REPUBLIC AND POLAND. (01/10/2022 - 30/09/2024) - Promotor
• The women's empowerment-sustainable tourism nexus in rural Vietnam (01/09/2022 - 31/08/2024) - Co-promotor

Recent publications

• launch Fung-Loy, K.S., Van Rompaey, A. (sup.), Loopmans, M. (cosup.) (2025). Analysis and Modelling of Urban Dynamics and Socioeconomic Segregation. A Case Study of the Greater Paramaribo Region, Suriname.
• launch Igga, Y., Twongyirwe, R., Nkurunungi, J.B., Kagoro-Rugunda, G., Opio, A., Vanmaercke, M., van Rompaey, A., Poesen, J. with Twongyirwe, R. (corresp. author) (2025). Anthropogenic termite mound erosion: Spatio-temporal distribution, biophysical characteristics and farmers' perceptions in SW Uganda. ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, 127, Art.No. ARTN 104078. doi: 10.1016/j.actao.2025.104078
• launch Tadesse Weldegebriel, A., Lombardo, A., Tekalign, M., Van Rompaey, A., Janusz, K. with Tadesse Weldegebriel, A. (joint first author), Lombardo, A. (joint first author) (2025). Understanding Addis Ababa's urban transition and slum clearance through gentrification theory. Cities, 162, Art.No. 105952. doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.105952
• launch Hemerijckx, L-M., De Vos, K., Kaunda, J., Van Rompaey, A. (2025). Future scenarios for urban agriculture and food security in sub-Saharan Africa: Modelling the urban land-food system in an agent-based approach. Computers Environment And Urban Systems, 118, Art.No. 102258. doi: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2025.102258
• launch Ijlil, S., Essahlaoui, A., Essahlaoui, N., Skrimizea, E., Parra, C., Mili, E.M., Van Rompaey, A. (2025). Building bridges to achieve SDG 6 and integrated water resources management: an assessment of stakeholder integration in the Saiss region, Morocco. Water International, 50 (2), 121-142. doi: 10.1080/02508060.2025.2458967
• launch Oumou, A., Essahlaoui, A., Khrabcha, A., Essahlaoui, N., Alitane, A., Kassou, A., El Hafyani, M., Van Rompaey, A., Gobin, A. (2025). Utilizing Remote Sensing to Quantify Evapotranspiration: A Case Study of the Saiss Basin (Morocco). In: SIG au service du Développement Territorial et de la Prise de Décision: vol. 607 (E3S Web Conf.), (Paper No. 04022). Presented at the 6th International Conference of GIS USERS (ERRACHIDIA GIS-USERS’2024), Errachidia, Maroc, 02 Oct 2024-03 Oct 2024. doi: 10.1051/e3sconf/202560704022 via repository
• launch Balcha, W.G., Van Rompaey, A. (2024). Modeling the room for local alternatives albeit city-scale planning in expanding global-south cities. (Abstract No. 359). Presented at the Global Land Programme's 5th Open Science Meeting, Oaxaca, Mexico, 04 Nov 2024-08 Nov 2024.
• launch Van Rompaey, A., Hemerijckx, L-M. with Hemerijckx, L-M. (joint last author) (2024). A bivariate spatial analysis of rural abandonment in Europe. In: Proceedings of Global Land Programme: 5th Open Science Meeting. Presented at the Global Land Programme: 5th Open Science Meeting, Oaxaca, Mexico. via repository
• launch Ma, X., Van Rompaey, A., Qiang, W.W., Derudder, B. with Derudder, B. (corresp. author) (2024). Exploring the impacts of high-speed rail on technology-intensive manufacturing: the case of the Yangtze River Delta region, 2007-2016. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 14 (1), Art.No. ARTN 21885. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-72611-9 via repository
• launch Balcha, W.G., Van Rompaey, A. (2024). Making room for the vernacular despite hyper-urbanization: the cases of Awramba and BuraNEST in the Lake Tana Area, Ethiopia. (Abstract No. 3387). Presented at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2024, London, UK, 27 Aug 2024-30 Aug 2024.