About Me
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 & Environmental Sciences
# City
# Household
# Informal Settlement
# Policy
# Urban Growth
Social Sciences
# Natural Disaster
# Resettlement
# Slum
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management (PGM)Ancillary Activities
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Earthquake and Megacities Initiative
EMI Board of Trustees
Publications
Recent
Veeravalli, S. G.
, Chereni, S.
, Sliuzas, R. V.
, Flacke, J.
, & Maarseveen, M. V. (2022).
Factors influencing flood damage mitigation among micro and small businesses in Kampala, Uganda.
International journal of disaster risk reduction,
82, [103315].
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103315
Esmaiel, A., Abdrabo, K. I., Saber, M.
, Sliuzas, R. V.
, Atun, F., Kantoush, S. A., & Sumi, T. (2022).
Integration of flood risk assessment and spatial planning for disaster management in Egypt.
Progress in Disaster Science,
15, [100245].
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2022.100245
Kuffer, M.
, Owusu, M., Oliveira, L.
, Sliuzas, R., & Rijn, F. V. (2022).
The missing millions in maps: Exploring causes of uncertainties in global gridded population datasets.
ISPRS international journal of geo-information,
11(7), 1-18. [403].
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11070403
Chereni, S. (2022).
Understanding flood risk perceptions and motivations for damage mitigation: The case of Kampala, Uganda. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC).
https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036553896
Abascal, A., Rodríguez-Carreño, I., Vanhuysse, S., Georganos, S.
, Sliuzas, R., Wolff, E.
, & Kuffer, M. (2022).
Identifying degrees of deprivation from space using deep learning and morphological spatial analysis of deprived urban areas.
Computers, environment and urban systems,
95, 1-20. [101820].
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2022.101820
Christ, S.
, Schwarz, N.
, & Sliuzas, R. (2022).
Wildland urban interface of the City of Cape Town 1990–2019.
Geographical Research,
60(3), 395-413.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12535
Nikuze, A.
, Flacke, J.
, Sliuzas, R.
, & Van Maarseveen, M. (2022).
Urban induced-displacement of informal settlement dwellers: A comparison of affected households' and planning officials’ preferences for resettlement site attributes in Kigali, Rwanda.
Habitat International,
119, 1-12. [102489].
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2021.102489
Kuffer, M., Grippa, T.
, Persello, C., Taubenböck, H.
, Pfeffer, K.
, & Sliuzas, R. (2022).
Mapping the morphology of urban deprivation. In X. Yang (Ed.),
Urban Remote Sensing: Monitoring, Synthesis, and Modeling in the Urban Environment (pp. 305-323). Wiley.
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119625865.ch14
Kuffer, M.
, Thomson, D. R., Maki, A., Vanhuysse, S., Georganos, S.
, Sliuzas, R.
, & Persello, C. (2021).
EO-based low-cost frameworks to address global urban data gaps on deprivation and multiple hazards. In
2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS (pp. 2106-2109). IEEE.
https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554094
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Courses Academic Year 2022/2023
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Courses Academic Year 2021/2022
Contact Details
Visiting Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
ITC
(building no. 75), room 3-136
Hengelosestraat 99
7514AE Enschede
The Netherlands
Mailing Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
ITC
3-136
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands