My work focuses on how urban planning can contribute to disaster risk reduction. My educational background combines knowledge of town planning (BSc, UniSA, Australia), urban surveys and human settlement analysis (MSc, ITC, Netherlands) and geographical sciences (PhD Utrecht University, Netherlands). Much of my career has been devoted to research, education and capacity building on urban planning in the majority world, with a specific focus on mapping and modelling informal urban development to improve the quality of life of their residents. Since 2010 the focus has broadened to include work on urban planning for disaster risk reduction.
Expertise
Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Metropolitan Area
- Datum
- Investigation
- Area
- Policy
- Flood
Social Sciences
- Urban Areas
- Rwanda
Organisations
Publications
2025
Enhancing community understanding on the cascading effects of critical infrastructure service failure via interactive learning (2025)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Purwar, D.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036567985A hierarchical cross-departmental agent-based approach to explore the impacts of policy interplay on land use dynamics (2025)Computers, environment and urban systems, 123. Article 102355 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Gao, J., Gong, J., Schwarz, N. & Sliuzas, R.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2025.102355Towards an understanding of wildfire risk at the wildland urban interface as a socio-ecological system (2025)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Christ, S. I.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036568722Impacts of land cover change on cooling effect of waterbodies: Spatiotemporal variations and drivers in Wuhan from 1990 to 2022 (2025)Ecological indicators, 178. Article 113902. Zhang, M., Gong, J., Zhang, Z., Sliuzas, R. V. & Schwarz, N.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113902Landcover and fire spatial data for City of Cape Town, Survey on residential decision making under risk in Imizamo Yethu and an agent based model for the understanding of residential choice under fire risk. (2025)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities. Christ, S., Schwarz, N., Sliuzas, R. & Thula Thula Houtbayhttps://doi.org/10.17026/ss/odszpvUnveiling energy poverty risk: A multidimensional analysis of the heat-or-eat dilemma (2025)Energy research & social science, 125. Article 104076. Martinez Görbig, G., Flacke, J., Sliuzas, R. & Reckien, D.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104076Empirical insights on adaptation implementation in European cities: Data & Code (2025)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Martínez Görbig, G., Flacke, J., Treville, A., Sliuzas, R. & Reckien, D.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15593458Using comparative approaches to model deprivation in Antananarivo, Madagascar: A multidimensional analysis using principal components analysis and weighting system across meso and macro scales (2025)Habitat International, 159. Article 103359. Ramiaramanana, F. N., Teller, J., Sliuzas, R. & Kuffer, M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103359
2024
Improving community understanding of cascading effects of critical infrastructure service failure: An experimental interactive learning process (2024)Progress in Disaster Science, 24. Article 100383. Purwar, D., Flacke, J. & Sliuzas, R. V.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2024.100383Influence of hazard-related and cognitive factors of households’ flood risk perceptions in Kampala, Uganda (2024)Environmental science & policy, 160. Article 103852. Chereni, S., Sliuzas, R. V., Flacke, J. & Maarseveen, M. v.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103852
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