Prof.dr. R.V. Sliuzas | People Pages: Find employees & contact details | University of Twente

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

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Publications

2025

Using 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 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). 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.2024.103852Fitting consistent knowledge into the planning process: An integrated database on adaptation and mitigation measures in Europe (2024)Data in brief, 55. Article 110580. Martínez Görbig, G., Flacke, J., Keller, M., Pflugradt, N., Sliuzas, R. & Reckien, D.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.110580Disentangling Heat-or-Eat Dilemma: Data and Code (2024)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Martínez Görbig, G., Flacke, J., Sliuzas, R. & Reckien, D.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12926734Integrated database on adaptation and mitigation measures in Europe (2024)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Martínez Görbig, G., Flacke, J., Keller, M., Pflugradt, N., Sliuzas, R. & Reckien, D.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8248586A qualitative analysis of cascading effects of critical infrastructure service failure post torrential floods in formal & informal settlement: the study-case of Medellin city, Colombia (2024)Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 9(5), 496-512. Purwar, D., Flacke, J., Guzman, E. a. & Sliuzas, R.https://doi.org/10.1080/23789689.2024.2340924Forensic analysis of historical disasters to develop quantifiable multi-hazard impact chains models (2024)In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology - 7ICEES 2023—Volume 2 (pp. 467-475) (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering; Vol. 401 LNCE). Springer. Atun, F., Sliuzas, R., Romagnoli, F., Armas, I., Mocanu, R. & Kundak, S.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57357-6_40

2023

The relationship between multiple hazards and deprivation using open geospatial data and machine learning (2023)Natural hazards, 119(2), 907-941. Kabiru, P., Kuffer, M., Sliuzas, R. & Vanhuysse, S.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-023-05897-zAnalyzing and managing human settlement growth in the Nile Valley, Egypt (2023)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Abdelkader, M. M. I. A.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036556576

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Courses academic year 2023/2024

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