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Els (M.) Bekaert

Postdoc Ghent University
Verified email at ugent.be
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Domestic and international migration intentions in response to environmental stress: A global cross-country analysis

E Bekaert, I Ruyssen, S Salomone - Journal of Demographic …, 2021 - cambridge.org
In light of increasing environmental stress and its likely implications for migration patterns, we
conduct a cross-country individual-level analysis of the impact of self-reported exposure to …

[HTML][HTML] Family physician perceptions of climate change, migration, health, and healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa: An exploratory study

C Scheerens, E Bekaert, S Ray, A Essuman… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Although family physicians (FPs) are community-oriented primary care generalists and
should be the entry point for the population’s interaction with the health system, they are …

Longing for which home: A global analysis of the determinants of aspirations to stay, return or migrate onwards

E Bekaert, AF Constant, K Foubert, I Ruyssen - Journal of Economic …, 2024 - Elsevier
Most migration studies and theories focus on understanding the initial migration of people
from their home country. Less attention has been paid to the factors influencing immigrants’ …

Longing for which home: Evidence from global aspirations to stay, return or migrate onwards

E Bekaert, AF Constant, K Foubert, I Ruyssen - 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Aspirations provide the underlying dynamics of the behavior of individuals whether they are
realized or not. Knowledge about the characteristics and motives of those who aspire to …

Tackling adverse health effects of climate change and migration through intersectoral capacity building in Sub-Saharan Africa

…, I Ruyssen, S Ray, A De Sutter, W Vanhove, E Bekaert… - BJGP open, 2020 - bjgpopen.org
The international community increasingly acknowledges that climate change is not only
spurring environmental degradation and health deterioration, 1 it is also an important direct and …

Human Migration in the Face of Environmental Change: A Global Empirical Approach

E Bekaert, I Ruyssen, S Salomone - Regional Integration and Migration …, 2020 - Springer
Disaster forces millions of people to move away from their homes every year. Many more
move in the face of gradual environmental change. To address the needs of the people …

[PDF][PDF] UNU-CRIS

E Bekaert, I Ruyssen, S Salomone - researchgate.net
Environmental stress is expected to increase in the future and the implications of climate
change are likely to affect migration patterns around the world. Despite the size of the literature, …

Local stereo matching with segmentation-based outlier rejection

M Gerrits, P Bekaert - … on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV'06), 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a new window-based stereo matching algorithm which focuses on robust outlier
rejection during aggregation. The main difficulty for window-based methods lies in …

Regime switches in interest rates

A Ang, G Bekaert - Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
… In the RS term spread models, we fi nd that Granger causality is model dependent. For the
United States and Germany, one regime produces a signifi cant Ai61127 term, so the spread …

[CITATION][C] Understanding migration drivers: the role of health and climate factors

E Bekaert - 2022 - biblio.ugent.be
… Author Els Bekaert (UGent) … Bekaert E. Understanding migration drivers : the role of
health and climate factors. [Ghent, Belgium]: Ghent University. … Bekaert, “Understanding …